C# 6 and Roslyn – Pour Some Sugar On Me

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This week we’re taking pot shots from the peanut gallery!

We talk about new features in C# 6. What we like, what we love…and binary literals.

We also struggle to define Roslyn and BONUS! poetry reading from Michael Outlaw!

Points of Interest

Build Keynote in 7 minutes – via @patrikdahlen
Allen owes the world a post on combining LINQ comprehension and lambda syntaxes. via @pascalcoder
Int32 and Int64 in english via @leeenglestone (Quintillion!!!)
Heartbleed strikes!
Core Infrastructure Initiative
Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool
Database Schema for Multiple Types of Products
Reflection of Control
Linq Lazy Loading

The History of Warrant’s “Cherry Pie”

C# 6 – Pour some sugar on me!

That’s a lot of sugar!

Primary Constructors
Readonly auto properties
Auto property initializers
Static type using statements
Property Expressions
Method Expressions
Params for enumerables
Monadic null checking
Constructor type parameter inference
Declaration Expressions
Exception filters
Binary literals
Digit separator
Indexed members and element initializers/accessors
Await available in catch and finally blocks
Extension Add methods
Event initializers
Semicolon operator
Private protected
nameOf operator

<> !*”#
^”`$$-
!*=@$_
%*<> ~#4
&[]../
|{,,SYSTEM HALTED

Read as:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.

– Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese, INFOCUS magazine