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Enabling C# 9 in Xamarin & .NET Standard Projects

Whoa! .NET 5 is out and C# 9 is out! This means you are ready to use records, new pattern matching, and more! But wait a second... your apps haven't been upgraded to .NET 5 yet or are a project type that don't support .NET so you don't have access to the new C# 9 features :( Or do you!?!?!?! Yes, of course you do! Most new features in C# are compiler based and not necessarily runtime based. When you create a new project the compiler determines a default C# language based on these r…

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Use C# 8 In Any .NET Project Today

C# 8 was officially released in September at .NET Conf along side .NET Core 3 & Visual Studio 16.3 (8.3 on Mac). It is packed with tons of amazing new features [https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-8?WT.mc_id=docs-montemagnoblog-jamont] that truly everyone should be using. However, there is a lot of confusing as to if you can actually use C# 8 if you aren't using .NET Core 3 or .NET Standard 2.1. * Short answer: YES! You can use it today. * Long answer: YES! Y…

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Optimizing C# Struct Equality with IEquatable and ValueTuples

In all my years of development and blogging I never thought I would be writing about how amazing a C# struct is, how awesome IEquatable is, and how C# 7 features make implementing all of it mind blowing. In Xamarin.Essentials we use the C# struct [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/struct] all over the place to encapsulate "small groups of related variables" for our event handlers. They are groups of data that don't need to be created by t…

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Paste JSON as Code with quicktype.io in Visual Studio

quicktype! Yes that quicktype [http://quicktype.io] that I blogged about late last year [https://montemagno.com/convert-json-to-any-language-with-quicktype/] on how to convert JSON to C# classes in the browser. I am back talking about it again because they have made tons of great enhancements and just today released a new extension for Visual Studio 2017 [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=typeguard.quicktype-vs]! I should mention here that all of this is FREE. Watch Now, Qu…

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C# Developers: Stop Calling .Result

I love async/await Task based programming! I talk about it in all my demos, it is in all my libraries, and Frank and I did a whole Merge Conflict podcast episode [http://www.mergeconflict.fm/merge-conflict-44-i-love-callbacks] on it. The problem is that I keep getting bug reports and seeing samples where it is being abused and used completely wrong. I am never a fan of calling a lot of async code in a constructor or in the OnCreate/AppDelegate, but the real issue is when I see stuff like this w…

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My Favorite C# 7 Feature: More expression-bodied members

I can’t help myself, I love Expression-Bodied Members from C# 6! Combined with other powerful C# features it took this code: public void OnPropertyChanged(string name) { var changed = PropertyChanged; if(changed == null) return; changed(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name)); } to this: public void OnPropertyChanged(string name)=> PropertyChanged?.Invoke(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name)); This is amazing! However, in C# 7 things get even better. Take our goo…

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Getting Started With & Learning C#

In 2006, after years of writing C++ and Java code, while attending UAT an instructor named Phil Miller introduced me to this amazing language called C# and changed my life. It was love at first “Hello World” and I have never looked back. C# is an extremely powerful, mature, and extremely cross-platform programming language that I have been using for decades. The beauty of C# of course is that you get this amazing cross-platform framework called .NET, which gives developers ability to perform RES…

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Enabling C# 9 in Xamarin & .NET Standard Projects

Use C# 8 In Any .NET Project Today

Optimizing C# Struct Equality with IEquatable and ValueTuples

Paste JSON as Code with quicktype.io in Visual Studio

C# Developers: Stop Calling .Result

My Favorite C# 7 Feature: More expression-bodied members

Getting Started With & Learning C#

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