Episode 10 – C# 6 and Roslyn – Pour Some Sugar On Me

This week we're taking pot shots from the peanut gallery! We talk about new features in C# 6. What we like, what we love...and binary literals. We also struggle to define Roslyn and BONUS! poetry reading from Michael Outlaw! Points of Interest Build Keynote in 7 minutes - via @patrikdahlen Allen owes the world a post on combining LINQ comprehension and lambda syntaxes. via @pascalcoder Int32 and Int64 in english via @leeenglestone (Quintillion!!!) Heartbleed strikes! Core Infrastructure Initiative Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool Database Schema for Multiple Types of Products Reflection of Control Linq Lazy Loading C# 6 - Pour some sugar on me! That's a lot of sugar! Primary Constructors Readonly auto properties Auto property initializers Static type using statements Property Expressions Method Expressions Params for enumerables Monadic null checking Constructor type parameter inference Declaration Expressions Exception filters Binary literals Digit separator Indexed members and element initializers/accessors Await available in catch and finally blocks Extension Add methods Event initializers Semicolon operator Private protected nameOf operator <> !*''# ^"`$$- !*=@$_ %*<> ~#4 &[]../ |{,,SYSTEM HALTED Read as: Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash, Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash, Bang splat equal at dollar under-score, Percent splat waka waka tilde number four, Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash, Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH. - Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese, INFOCUS magazine A Roslyn by any other name C# Script! Open Sourced under (permissive!) Apache2 Microsoft has their eyes on other platforms? A boon for mono? What kind of tools / plugins will spring up? Additional Resources Probable C# 6.0 features illustrated List of the new features in C# 6 C# Feature explanation Complete feature explanation https://smellegantcode.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/adventures-in-roslyn-adding-crazily-powerful-operator-overloading-to-c-6/ Tips/Tricks Nice theme views for JetBrains products Debugging Object Initializers 2 insightful, intelligent coding podcasts: Full Stack Podcast and The John Morris Show

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