Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.
Here a simple scenario: You have a StringComparer and you want to add your own comparer to the mix - for example a "natural sort" order, so "file2" sorts before "file10" instead of after.
With C# 14 we can extend the family and make it feel natural!
Blazor is a bit talkative when it comes to the Developer Console. PageSpeed Insights for example does complain:
Browser errors were logged to the console
The fix is easy.
LinkedIn: The "professional" network where critical thinking takes a backseat and everyone is an expert in everything.
Signals - more often used in Angular - are a nice way to tell the UI that something has changed. Blazor doesn't have that natively, but how would it look, if it did?
If you use AsSplitQuery anywhere in your codebase, EF Core 11 has a present for you: your queries get faster.
.NET has had DeflateStream, GZipStream, ZLibStream, and BrotliStream for a while now. In .NET 11, a new one joins the party: ZstandardStream. And now we get to say "Zstd" in .NET.
Here's a bug that lived in .NET for over four years As in: Reported over 4 years ago. If your BackgroundService threw an exception after its first await, your host would catch it, log a critical message, and then exit cleanly with exit code 0.
So everyone would think it terminated successfully. That got fixed!
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration has had ConfigurationKeyNameAttribute since .NET 6 which it lets you rename the key a property maps to. But there was never an official way to say "don't bind this property at all." That gap is finally closed in .NET 11 with ConfigurationIgnoreAttribute.
Some time ago (over 4.5 years ago!) I wrote a blog post titled: "A better enumeration - Type safe from start to end". While cool and so - it had some issues. Let's tackle them!
What is the output of that code snippet?
Console.Write(new Derived("Test"));
public abstract record Base(string Key)
{
public override string ToString() => Key;
}
public sealed record DerivedRecord(string Key) : Base(Key);
Probably "Test"?