No CommentBack in November, in the Connect() special issue of MSDN Magazine, I provided an overview of C# 7.0 in which I introduced tuples. Click here for the overview. In this blog I delve into tuples again, covering the full breadth of the syntax options.
To begin, let’s consider the question:
Why tuples?
On occasion, you’ll likely find it useful to […]
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No CommentEver since C# 5.0 when the async/await pattern was introduced, the only supported return types were Task<TResult>, Task, and void (the latter only in exceptional cases). The problem with this limitation is that on occasions when the result is known immediately, it is still necessary to proceed with the formality of instantiating a Task even though no task is actually required […]
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No CommentWhile the deconstruct syntax is interesting for its convenience in assigning to a set of variables, what I believe has far broader implications is its potential to provide an “implicit conversion operator” and in a syntax that, quite frankly, is far easier to recall than the implicit cast operator. For example, I can provide deconstructors that map to a string […]
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