February 16

Nullable Reference Types in C# 8

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Introduction

With C# 8 you can now use a new feature in the language called Nullable Reference Types.  

The Nullable Reference Types feature in C# 8 is disabled by default even if you specify C# 8 as your language version in Visual Studio

How to enable the feature

You can enable the feature by setting the Nullable property to enable inside your C# project file.

Enabling this feature drastically changes the semantics of your code.

The C# compiler will start working with a different set of rules.

It will consider any variable of a reference type non-nullable and can be dereferenced safely. 

The C# compiler will show a warning all the time you attempt to assign null to a reference type variable.

Learn how you can enable this feature and start fixing nullability issues in your code base. 

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Conclusion

The new set of warnings the compiler can generate when you enable the Nullable Reference Types feature, can be a massive help for the developers and will help to spot bugs and write code of better quality. This feature is definitely a game changer for C# developers and I invite you to use it especially on new projects.

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