Posts tagged #c#

Build: The future of C#

Along the same line as the TypeScript talk, Mads Thorgersen and Dustin Campbell did a great talk about the future of C# , opening with some statistics that show how loved and widely used the language really is. Even though I am very much in love with F#, I am also quite happy...

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Simply being lazy and concurrent

I recently worked on a long running migration project, where we needed to ensure that some of the sql migration scripts were only called once per entity that was migrated, in a threadsafe manner. I looked to the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace, but none of the classes...

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Pattern matching on its way to C#

As the design notes for C# 7 reveals, Microsoft are thinking about introducing pattern matching into C# in version 7. I was really happy when I first heard this, because pattern matching is one of the things I often miss from F#, where I wrote about the joy of pattern matching...

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Yearning for some learning?

A piece of advise that is often given to developers who want to keep improving, is to learn a new programming language every year. I mostly think it holds true if you try to learn a new paradigme – because just learning new syntax won’t really get you anywhere. Koans One way of...

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JAOO Århus 2009

Actually I had not planned to go to JAOO this year, but first my good colleagues who run ANUG struck a good deal where Mads Torgersen and Oren Eini alias Ayende Rahien would give a special talk in the evening for the usergroup. This was simply too good to pass up. After all, how...

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Nye funktionelle tiltag i C# 4.0

Udover at inkludere features fra dynamiske sprog som er et af hovedområderne Microsoft arbejder med til C# 4.0 kommer der også nogle flere features inspireret af F# og funktionel programmering. Tupler og en Zip funktion til Enumerable klassen kan man læse om på codebetter idag....

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Demo søndag - C# futures og "Jasper"

Lidt af min søndag er gået med at kigge på videoer af hvad Microsoft arbejder på til .NET platformen, og i den forbindelse er jeg fladet over et par fede demoer som jeg lige vil gøre opmærksom på. Først og fremmest vil jeg anbetale at se Anders Hejlsbergs snak ved PDC om C# 4.0...

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vNext features i C# og VB

Den seneste måned er der begyndt at blive talt om nye features i næste version af kernesprogene i .NET. Personligt er jeg glad for at der er nogen features der idag kun eksisterer i et af sprogene der bliver portet så de findes i begge sprog. Her er der umiddelbart tale om...

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