News
Pre-release Visual Studio 2017
Download Visual Studio 2017 Preview version 15.3 to get the latest features not yet in Visual Studio 2017. Be the first to try and give feedback to make Visual Studio even better.
Code
Multi-Targeting and Porting a .NET Library to .NET Core 2.0
Rick Strahl takes us through the process of porting a library to .NET Core 2.0.
C# 7.x and 8.0: Uncertainty and Awesomeness
Erik Heemskerk shares more details in what is being considered for version 8 of C#. A few favorites include:
- async support for enumerable and disposable
- records
- default interface implementations
Cross-platform development on Windows is suddenly awesome
In this post, W. Brian Gourlie explores more opportunities brought to us by the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
How the .NET Runtime loads a Type
It is something we take for granted every time we run a .NET program, but it turns out that loading a Type or class is a fairly complex process.
Test
Automate Testing and Running Apps with dotnet watch
If you’re using the dotnet CLI tools to develop your .NET Core apps, you’re probably very familiar with typing dotnet run and/or dotnet test every time you make a change to your app. Using dotnet watch can help you run your tests against your .NET Core Apps every time you make changes.
Community Projects
CodeMaid | An open source visual studio extension to cleanup, dig through and simplify our code
CodeMaid is an open source Visual Studio extension to cleanup and simplify C#, C++, F#, VB, PHP, PowerShell, R, JSON, XAML, XML, ASP, HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, JavaScript and TypeScript coding.