explore what's new in C# 8, as well as what we can expect in the near (and far) future of C#!
We'll talk about:
- News in C# 8
- Pattern Matching (incl. Record Types)
- Nullable Reference Types and How to Avoid Null Reference Exceptions
- How Async & Await is Improving

Bringing WebAssembly to the .NET Mainstream - Steve Sanderson, Microsoft

Many developers still consider WebAssembly to be a leading-edge, niche technology tied to low-level systems programming languages. However, C# and .NET (open-source, cross-platform technologies used by nearly one-third of all professional developers [1]) have run on WebAssembly since 2017. Blazor WebAssembly brought .NET into the browser on open standards, and is now one of the fastest-growing parts of .NET across enterprises, startups, and hobbyists. Next, with WASI we could let you run .NET in even more places, introducing cloud-native tools and techniques to a wider segment of the global developer community. This is a technical talk showing how we bring .NET to WebAssembly. Steve will demonstrate how it runs both interpreted and AOT-compiled, how an IDE debugger can attach, performance tradeoffs, and how a move from Emscripten to WASI SDK lets it run in Wasmtime/Wasmer or higher-level runtimes like wasmCloud. Secondly, you'll hear lessons learned from Blazor as an open-source project - challenges and misconceptions faced bringing WebAssembly beyond early adopters. [1] StackOverflow survey 2021 

On 16th November 2016, Nat Friedman and James Montemagno introduced Visual Studio for Mac, the newest member of the Visual Studio family at Connect(); 2016 event. I thought let's give it a try so I installed the same and went through the project templates available in it. This blog is kind of a getting started guide to install Visual Studio For Mac. 

ASP.NET Community Standup - Blazor United in .NET 8
The Blazor team shares early thoughts on Blazor United in .NET 8, an effort to create a single unified model for all your web UI scenarios that combines the best of Razor Pages, Blazor Server, and Blazor WebAssembly.
 

Mads takes a whirlwind tour through the language features in the upcoming C# 11. Static virtual members, list patterns, required properties and raw string literals are all among the new tools in your toolbox for writing cleaner, safer, more general and more concise code in C#. 

Over the last decade, Android's open platform has created a thriving community of manufacturers and developers that reach a global audience with their devices and apps. This has expanded beyond phones to tablets, cars, watches, TVs and more—with more than 2.5 billion active devices around the world. As we continue to build Android for everyone in the community, our brand should be as inclusive and accessible as possible—and we think we can do better in a few ways. 

• Performance improvements in the core debugger
• Support for  .NET 6 , which can be used to build web, client and mobile apps by both Windows and Mac developers, as well as improved support for developing Azure apps
• An update UI meant to reduce complexity and which will add integration with Accessibility Insights. Microsoft plans to update the icons and add support for  Cascadia Code , a new fixed-width font for better readability
• Support for C++ 20 tooling. language standardization and Intellisense
• Integration of text chat into the  Live Share  collaboration feature
• Additional support for Git and GitHub
• Improved code search  

C# Tutorial For Beginners Full Course | Csharp tutorial for beginners
In this course you will learn how to start in your computer programming path using one of the most relevant programming languages: C#. You will get a good understanding on the basics of how Visual Studio 2019 compiles console-based programs. Finally, this class will pave the way to expanding intermediate C# concepts by creating a good foundation for you in very important concepts such as C# data types, decision making, looping and C# methods.
 

WebAssembly, or Wasm, is on its way to becoming the next big thing in software development, allowing us to develop more reusable code across programming stacks. It will also enable the deployment of smaller packages more securely. This talk will focus on the view of a .NET developer using WebAssembly in their projects, whether client-side, server-side, or plugins.
Agenda
0:00:00 – Introduction
0:01:44 – Presentation Start
0:04:36 – Wasm on the client
0:08:27 – Wasm on the server
0:11:51 – ASP.NET Core in Wasi
0:21:41 – Wasm in the cloud
0:32:38 – Wasm for plugins
0:36:07 – Wasm plugins samples
0:49:05 – .NET 8 and the future
0:55:08 – Who’s working on this?
1:03:13 – Outro