Category: Programming

This is one of a series of posts on some of the new features in C# 6.0, which was just released. When Linq was added, a number of cool side-features ended up being added as well–these were things that were …

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This is one of a series of posts on some of the new features in C# 6.0, which was just released. In C# there is a very handy expression – typeof – that returns the Type of an object. For …

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This is one of a series of posts on some of the new features in C# 6.0, which was just released. The ability to format strings in .NET is straightforward, and fairly powerful (ignore the line breaks): string value = …

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This is one of a series of posts on some of the new features in C# 6.0, which was just released. When catching exceptions in code, you can have a different catch block for different types of exceptions: try { …

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This is one of a series of posts on some of the new features in C# 6.0, which was just released. Expression bodies let you use lambda-style expression declarations for methods and properties. So, instead of: public int Add(int x, …

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This is one of a series of posts on some of the new features in C# 6.0, which was just released. I had to be careful about naming this one because just calling it “using static” implies a different topic! …

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This is one of a series of posts on some of the new features in C# 6.0, which was just released. Auto-properties were added some time ago. An auto-property lets you define a property without a backing field: public string …

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This is one of a series of posts on some of the new features in C# 6.0, which was just released. Null-conditional member access is a great new feature that, I think, will help make code more bullet-proof and easier …

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