Visual Studio Magazine

Don't Do It All Yourself: Exploiting gRPC Well Known Types in .NET Core

If you're creating business services that send dates and decimal data then you may be concerned that gRPC services don't support the relevant data types. Don't Panic! There are solutions. Here's how ...
InfoQ

Microsoft Previews Nullable Reference Types in C# 8

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InfoQ

Adapting Projects to Use C# 8 and Nullable Reference Types

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Neowin

Half is a new binary floating-point type in .NET 5 Preview 7 to speed up ML workflows

In .NET 5 Preview 7, Microsoft has now introduced another floating-point datatype alongside the standard Float and Double. Dubbed Half, the new datatype is equivalent to binary16, which is specified ...
Ars Technica

Mapping File Extensions to Mime Types in .NET

I've got a small query for the Symposium here:<BR><BR>I'm working with an ASP.NET application that uses a web service to acquire the binary filedata along with the filename and stores that data within ...
InfoWorld

How to use frozen collections in C#

The FrozenSet and FrozenDictionary classes introduced in .NET 8 are immutable collections optimized for fast look-ups. Here’s how to take advantage of them. Developers often grapple with the available ...