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Programming C# 10 Book, by Ian Griffiths, published by O'Reilly Media, is now available to buy.

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Programming C# 10 Book, by Ian Griffiths, published by O'Reilly Media, is now available to buy.

Endjin Technical Fellow and 15 times Microsoft MVP Ian Griffiths has been the author of O'Reilly Media's Programming C# book series for over a decade; C# 5.0 (2012), C# 8.0 (2019), the latest edition covering C# 10 (and C# 9.0 features) has just been released to buy: [Amazon UK], [Amazon US].

The .NET landscape has changed dramatically since the C# 8.0 edition was published in 2019; the "One .NET" initiative finally delivered a unified, high-performance, multi-CPU architecture, cross-platform version of .NET with Long Term Support.

Programming C# 10 covers all of the additions and changes to the C# language that have been made since the C# 8.0 edition, including:

C# 9.0

  • record types
  • partial methods
  • type patterns

C# 10.0

  • async keyword
  • boilerplate reduction
  • CallerArgumentExpression
  • global using directives
  • ignoring arguments in anonymous methods
  • namespace declaration
  • nullable references
  • property patterns
  • record structs
  • release of
  • return types for anonymous functions
  • string interpolation
  • throwing exceptions
  • tuple deconstruction
  • using static directives
  • zero-argument constructors

The book is written for experienced developers who want to gain a thorough understanding of C# and the underlying .NET runtime.

Code samples from the book can be found at https://github.com/idg10/prog-cs-10-examples

Ian has also published a number of in-depth articles delving into the nuances of C# 9.0 / 10 / 11 and .NET 6, which you may find interesting:

Also worth reading:

C# Lambda Discards

C# Lambda Discards

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C# has gradually been adding support for discards. This article explores how this evolution has led to some surprises.
C# 8.0 nullable references: non-nullable is the new default

C# 8.0 nullable references: non-nullable is the new default

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Explore C# 8.0's nullable references feature, as Ian discusses its impact on default nullability assumptions in this informative post.
Programming C# 12 Book, by Ian Griffiths, published by O'Reilly Media, is now available to buy.

Programming C# 12 Book, by Ian Griffiths, published by O'Reilly Media, is now available to buy.

Ian Griffiths

The latest edition of the book covers all of the additions and changes to the C# language that have been made in C# 11.0 and C# 12.0 including Generic Math, Primary Constructors and Collection Expressions.

Ian Griffiths

Technical Fellow I

Ian Griffiths

Ian has worked across an extraordinary breadth of computing - from embedded real-time systems and broadcast television to medical imaging and cloud-scale architectures. As Technical Fellow at endjin, he brings this deep cross-domain experience to bear on the hardest technical problems.

A 17-time Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, Ian is the author of O'Reilly's Programming C# 12.0 and one of the foremost authorities on the C# language and high-performance .NET development. He's a maintainer of Reactive Extensions for .NET, Reaqtor, and endjin's 50+ open source projects.

Ian has created Pluralsight courses on WPF fundamentals, WPF advanced topics, WPF v4, and the TPL, and has given over 20 talks at conferences worldwide. Technology brings him joy.