Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET. Microsoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development ...

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File-based apps, extension members, nameof improvements, and user-defined compound assignment operators make life easier for C# programmers. You’ll need .NET 10.

Switch statements and the case blocks they contain have been a mainstay of C-language flow-control syntax since the initial incarnation of the language back in the 1970s. C# inherited the overall ...

How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

In the third preview of Visual Studio 17.5, Microsoft added spell-checking functionality for C#, C++, and Markdown files. If you correct any identifiers it will auto-refactor your code. Similar to ...

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Microsoft has just released its 5th consumer technical preview of Visual Studio 2015, introducing numerous new additions to its popular software development tools. Similar to the way the software ...

Xamarin is making C# development one step easier for iOS developers, enabling them to build applications in C# using Visual Studio. On February 20, Xamarin announced immediate availability of Xamarin ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...