The best of C# and .NET in 2018

C# is a modern and productive language that is evolving rapidly.

This blog post contains links to the top articles and videos from 2018.

Fundamentals and Tips

10 reasons why C# is alive and kicking in 2018.

.NET Rocks - Essential C#.

Dictionary: Definition, Examples, Best Practices, and Pitfalls.

Nullable types arithmetic and null-coalescing operator precedence.

Less-Common Keywords - A Guided Tour.

Strings Are Evil.

Dynamic Binding.

Back to Basics Series.

Writing Honest Methods.

Abstract Classes.

How to rethrow exception correctly in .Net.

Inheritance.

The 10 Most Common Mistakes.

Top 10 .NET Debugging Tips.

A Re-introduction to References.

C# 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3

Using Deconstructors.

More goodness – Span<T>.

Playing with Deconstruct.

C# 7 Series.

The ‘in’-modifier and the readonly structs.

Quiz: How ref returns work

Performance traps of ref locals and ref returns.

New Features in C# 7.3

Tuple equality.

Unmanaged, delegate and enum type constraints.

C# 8

Default Interface Methods In C# 8.

First steps with nullable reference types.

Nullable Reference Types.

C# 8.0 – New Planned Features.

Ranges and Recursive Patterns.

Take C# 8.0 for a spin.

Index Struct.

IAsyncEnumerable.

C# Tooling

Try.Dot.Net - How to learn C# in the browser.

Productivity Tools in Visual Studio 2017.

Introducing the ReSharper performance series.

Tools for Exploring .NET Internals.

The Ultimate List of C# Tools.

Interviews

Interview with Beth Massi, Product Marketing Manager for the .NET Platform.

Concurrency in .NET with Riccardo Terrell.

Interview with the C# Boss - Mads Torgersen.

Software Design

Exploring Dependency Injection.

Adaptation of Design Patterns for Humans to C#.

Clean Architecture with Steve Smith.

Design Patterns Explained – Service Locator Pattern with Code Examples.

How to use the Abstract Factory design pattern.

SOLID Principles: Explanation and examples.

SOLID in C#.

.NET Framework 

.NET Core 3 SDK.

What Is .NET Core? (What Makes It So Special?).

Announcing .NET Core 2.2.

API Versioning in .Net Core.

.NET Standard

.NET Standard and Xamarin.Forms for the .NET Developer.

Windows Compatibility Pack for .NET Core.

The .NET Foundation YouTube channel.

Announcing .NET Standard 2.1

Guidance for .NET library authors.

Migrating from .NET to .NET Standard.

.NET Standard and Multi-targeting.

Azure

An Introduction to Azure Functions.

Introducing Azure Functions 2.0

.NET Rocks: Azure Success Stories with Christos Matskas.

Azure + Visual Studio + Xamarin = Great Mobile Apps.

Azure Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers.

Free eBook: Azure for Architects.

How to use the Cognitive Services Translator Text Api.

Serverless application architecture, patterns, and implementation.

Azure DevOps for .NET Teams.

Free e-book for Azure tips and tricks.

ASP.NET

Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.2

What is Blazor and why is it so exciting?.

Blazor and WebAssembly with Rocky Lhotka.

Blazor, Razor, WebAssembly, and Mono.

Get started building .NET web apps that run in the browser with Blazor.

Web Code is a solved Problem: How about fixing Web UI next?.

Microservice Architecture with ASP.NET Core.

Web Assembly and Blazor: Re-assembling the Web.

How to setup ASP.NET Core 2.1 on Linux in under 10 minutes.

A first look at changes coming in ASP.NET Core 3.0.

Compiling C# to WASM with Mono and Blazor then Debugging .NET Source with Remote Debugging in Chrome DevTools.

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core - Demystified.

Exploring .NET Core 3.0 and the Future of C# with ASP .NET Core.

.NET Internals & Performance

Garbage collection, a memorandum on memory.

Introducing .NET Core 2.1 Flagship Types: Span T and Memory T.

How to use Span and Memory.

Exploring the internals of the .NET Runtime.

.NET JIT and CLR - Joined at the Hip.

Pro .NET Memory Management.

Performance implications of default struct equality.

Stack and heap – .NET data structures.

Garbage collection: marking, collection and heaps compaction.

5 Techniques To Avoid Memory Leaks.

Managed pointers in .NET.

Asynchronous Programming

Advanced Async/Await.

Asynchronous Programming in .NET Series.

Asynchronous Programming using Async Await – Best Practices.

Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Motivation and Unit Testing.

Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP).

Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Benefits and Tradeoffs of Using ValueTask.

Task, Async Await, ValueTask, IValueTaskSource and how to keep your sanity in modern .NET world.

Async/Await For The Rest Of Us.

I didn't understand why people struggled with (.NET's) async.

The danger of TaskCompletionSource<T> class.

Miscellaneous Async Tips.

Visual Studio

Code refactoring support in Visual Studio 2017.

Visual Studio Roadmap.

Visualize Code with Visual Studio.

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9

Visual Studio Live Share.

Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019.

Visual Studio IntelliCode now infers coding conventions for consistent code.

Improving your productivity in the Visual Studio Editor.

Top 10 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio.

Unit Testing

Unit Testing: xUnit.

Visual Studio Toolbox - Unit Testing: Moq Framework.

Unit Testing: Existing Code.

Practical Test Driven Development.

How Unit Testing Improves Code Quality in TDD.

What to test and not to test.

Fundamentals of Mock Objects in Unit Testing.

History

A History of .NET Runtimes.

How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source.

Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio.

The Evolution of C#.

Open Source .NET – 4 years later.

Understanding the Varieties of .NET

Miscellaneous

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2

First look of Entity Framework Core 3.0

StackOverflow: Developer Survey Results 2018.

Backward compatibility and overloading.

How to create nuget packages.

How Microsoft Made Me Love .NET Core And C# Again.

Using ML.NET – Introduction to Machine Learning and ML.NET.

Machine Learning: An Introduction to ML.NET.

Welcome to Microsoft Learning.

C# Features: Innovations or Imitations?.

API Best Practices.

Microsoft Ignite 2018 Book of News.

Our favourite .NET, Azure and C# podcasts.

9 Must Decisions in Desktop Application Development for Windows.

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