- 11/28/2023
- 7 minute read
A journey about the new interceptors of .NET 8
This blog post describes my journey writing a new interceptor for .NET 8. This is not meant as a general tutorial, even though I will showcase some of the code samples.
All posts with Tag .NET 8
- 10/4/2023
- 8 minute read
.NET 8 and Blazor United / Server-side rendering
New .NET and new Blazor features. In this blog post, I want to highlight the new features that are hitting us with .NET 8 in the Blazor world. So let's see what's new.
- 9/24/2023
- 2 minute read
Less boilerplate code with the new primary constructor in C# 12
The new language feature "primary constructor" which will be released with C# 12 / .NET 8 this year (November 2023) allows you to remove some ceremonial code. Let's see how.
- 9/19/2023
- 3 minute read
A new way of doing reflection with .NET 8
.NET 8 introduced a new way of doing reflection. Why did they introduce this, and what are some benefits - this blog post will give you some insights.
- 8/7/2023
- 1 minute read
Keyed Services in the IServiceProvider in .NET 8 preview 7
The .NET 8 preview 7 will bring another exciting feature some of you probably awaiting for a long time: Keyed services.
- 6/17/2023
- 2 minute read
C# 12: Collection literals
A new feature is hitting C# 12 and it is called Collection literals. In this blog post, I will show you what it is and how it works.
- 6/4/2023
- 2 minute read
Time abstraction in .NET 8
With the upcoming release of .NET, the team introduced an abstraction of time itself. That can bring you major benefits especially if you have to test scenarios where time is a crucial part! Until now, you had to create your own wrapper. This, of course, makes integration with 3rd party libraries tricky.
- 5/31/2023
- 3 minute read
New Terminal logger for .NET 8
With preview 4 of .NET 8, a new terminal logger was introduced. It basically removes a lot of the noise that the default logger produces. It also adds some nice colors to the output. Let's see how to use it!
- 4/13/2023
- 14 minute read
.NET 8 Performance Edition
As with every .NET release, Microsoft improves the performance of the runtime and guess what: This release is no exception to this. In this blog post, I want to go through some of the improvements made so far (.NET 8 preview 3).
- 1/30/2023
- 2 minute read
Native DateOnly and TimeOnly support in Entity Framework 8 in SQL Server
.NET 6 brought us two new datatypes: DateOnly and TimeOnly. For those types we don't have any first class support in Entity Framework - until now.
There is a recent change, that hit us with Entity Framework 8 that might ease the situation and brings native support for those types.
- 1/18/2023
- 3 minute read
C# 12: Primary Constructors
Another new C# 12 feature might drop soon and makes its debut with the next iteration: Primary Constructors.
The blog post will talk about what a Primary constructor is, why we already have it, and what the proposal tries to change. Exciting times are ahead of us!
- 1/12/2023
- 1 minute read
Entity Framework 8: Raw SQL queries on unmapped types
The next iteration of Entity Framework, namely Entity Framework 8, will have a new and exciting feature:
Support raw SQL queries without defining an entity type for the result
That means less boilerplate code!
- 12/30/2022
- 2 minute read
C# 12: Default Parameters in Lambdas
There is still a long road ahead of us until the release of .NET 8, but the first new language constructs are getting public. The first one I want to present is: Default Parameters in Lambdas.
- 12/7/2022
- 1 minute read
Check for elevated rights in .NET 8
In the past, it was tricky to get if the current process runs under elevated rights. In the sense of it is run under the sudo group in *nix (Unix, Linux, macOS, you name it) or administrative rights in Windows.
But that changes with .NET 8 as we now have a unified API for that.
- 12/1/2022
- 4 minute read
New ArgumentException and ArgumentOutOfRangeException helpers in .NET 8
Do you remember how .NET 6 introduced the ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull guard? And afterward, with .NET 7 we've got this excellent bit: ArgumentException.ThrowIfNullOrEmpty? Guess what, there might come some new handy additions for the upcoming .NET 8 iteration.
So let's see what are those new changes and how they make the code simpler.
- 11/27/2022
- 6 minute read
A new wave of analyzers in .NET 8
Analyzers did become an integral part of the .NET ecosystem. Their main responsibility is to find potential code issues and warn you. Often times this comes even with potential fixes you can directly apply.
And Microsoft will continue this journey with the upcoming .NET 8 release. This blog post will show you potential candidates, which will make the cut.
- 11/24/2022
- 6 minute read
Frozen collections in .NET 8
.NET 7 was freshly released but Microsoft does not sleep. .NET 8 is already in the making and I want to showcase to you one new area where the dotnet team is working on Frozen collections.
So let's have a look at what frozen collections are and how they are working.