This is the companion repo for C# Features Succinctly by Dirk Strauss. Published by Syncfusion.

C# is continuing to evolve and improve with each major release of the language. As the C# team is innovating and adding features to C#, they share their thought process around the design of C# with the community.

To appreciate what C# 8.0 has to offer developers, it is important that we revisit some of the features available in C# 7.

• out variables

• Discards

• Tuples

• Pattern matching

• Local functions

• Expression-bodied members

• Generalized async return types

With the release of C# 8.0 developers have been given more features and enhancements to improve their codebases with. I say improve, because C# 8.0 introduces many very nice language features such as pattern matching enhancements.

• Default interface methods

• Nullable reference types

• Asynchronous streams

• Asynchronous disposable

• Indices and ranges

• Switch expressions

• Readonly members

• Using declarations

• Static local functions

• Disposable ref structs

• Null-coalescing assignment

• Unmanaged constructed types

• Stackalloc in nested expressions

• Enhancement of interpolated verbatim strings

• Enabling C# 8 in any .NET project

• Top-level programs

• Relational and logical patterns

• Target-typed new expressions

• Init-only properties

• Init accessors and readonly fields

• Records

• More C# 9.0 goodies

• Developer PowerShell inside Visual Studio

• The Visual Studio Git Window

• Drag and drop projects to add a reference

• Searching Visual Studio

• Code analyzers

• File header support in .editorconfig

• C# Language resources

  • C# language reference
  • C# language proposals
  • C# language design meetings
  • C# language design

Check out the entire library of more than 190 Succinctly ebooks at https://www.syncfusion.com/ebooks.