Lesser known features of C# 7

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Did you know that there have been multiple minor releases of C# since 7.0? Many of these features make it much easier for developers to write more performant code by minimizing value type copying. Our good friend and C# language designer, Mads Torgersen (@MadsTorgersen), joins this episode of On .NET to talk to us about some of these lesser known features that are available for developers to try out in their C# 7.x projects. 01:20 - Motivations for the minor releases of C# 02:31 - Who do the minor releases target? 03:48 -  ref locals and returns (C# 7.0) 10:26 - ref readonly and in parameters  (C# 7.2) 13:46 -  How can these features be used with immutable types? 18:42 - How to opt into C# 7.2 features?    Learn more about some of the other new features of C# 7 through the links below What's new in C# 7.2: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-7-2?WT.mc_id=docs-channel9-cephilli What's new in C# 7.1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-7-1?WT.mc_id=docs-channel9-cephilli What's new in C# 7: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-7?WT.mc_id=docs-channel9-cephilli

Published 2018-03-13 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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