C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more

Re:C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more by mikece on Sunday May 22, 2022 @07:57AM (#31467163)

I have been working with .NET since the heady, early days when the web framework was being called ASP-NG (next gen) and C# had not yet been given it's official name. I've written millions of lines of C# but sometimes I think it would behoove me to start over with C# as though I had never seen it before because there are things that have been added to the language in the last few years that I had no clue were there. Is there a course or book or blog post series along the lines of "C# for people who are writing C# like it's 2010"?

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Re:C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more by apetrovic on Sunday May 22, 2022 @08:31AM (#31467420)

I was in a similar position, worked with C# from the beginning and recently switched to non-MS stacks. I found official documentation [1] easy enough to follow - I started with "What's new in C# 8.0" to the latest version.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...

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Re:C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more by elorant on Sunday May 22, 2022 @08:36AM (#31467467)

John Skeet's "C# In Depth" series presents how the language changes from one version to the next with code examples.

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Re:C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more by Aisen8010 on Sunday May 22, 2022 @09:36AM (#31468037)

C# In Depth is indeed a good read. Unfortunately, the C# language is getting more and more complex, especially when you compare it to Java.

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Re:C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more by pjmlp on Sunday May 22, 2022 @10:44AM (#31468721)

Java is catching up, and what appears easy at the language level, gets extra knobs at the runtime and lower APIs.

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Re:C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more by elorant on Sunday May 22, 2022 @10:26AM (#31468505)

Sure, but it's backward compatible too. You can write C# 4 style code while in the latest version of .net/visual studio.

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Re:C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more by floucky on Sunday May 22, 2022 @10:28AM (#31468526)

Resharper helps a lot with that, making useful suggestions.

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Re:C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more by mikece on Sunday May 22, 2022 @03:13PM (#31471657)

I finally started using ReSharper for the first time and was blown away by the suggested refactorings/changes. I had no idea some of this stuff was even possible in C# -- and then more astonished to learn it had been there since 2012.

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Re:C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more by jbluepolarbear on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:41PM (#31470080)

I’ve been using C# for about 12 years. I look at the new features and think of places where it would clean things up or how I could build a new feature. An example: I used readonly structs to replace regular structs that were being passed in by reference (boxing) and the new ref for readonly is a one time cost, both speeding up the system and reducing garbage generated.

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Re:C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more by DaedPsyker on Sunday May 22, 2022 @08:44AM (#31467535)

I don't know if they have videos beyond 8 (the highest available to me in unity) but I founds Mads Torgersen own walkthroughs very good and succinct. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VdC0aoa7ung

Edit - sorry c#9 seems to be available in unity now

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Re:C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more by Kinrany on Sunday May 22, 2022 @08:31AM (#31467425)

I'd start with just learning about all the new features by reading the updates in reverse chronological order.

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