Hannes DuPreez

With the latest preview of .NET 7 (preview 4 released in May 2022), comes a lot of exciting new features and changes. We will be discussing some of these important changes and new features in today’s tutorial and .NET preview coverage. Let us get right into it. Read: Project Management Software for .NET Developers What […]

Having a curious mind, I always try to figure out how things work and how things can be done. I saw a movie last month on Netflix, whose name eludes me. In this movie, however, I saw these beautiful flowers. I had to do some research to find the name, which turned out to be […]

There are many ways for a developer to find the Microsoft Office version in .NET, but today we will show you one of the more complicated ways – just as an opportunity to fine-tune your C# coding skills. We will be working with the computer’s Registry system. If you are not familiar with the Registry, […]

A frequent question that comes up on developer forums like CodeGuru forums is: “How do I find the machine types in .NET?”. I can not believe I have not covered this topic before as most of my articles these days are more informative than instructional. To fix this, I will be answering this very question […]

When I was learning .NET, just as it came out in the early 2000’s, there were not many resources available. Microsoft provided the MSDN in CD and DVD format. Most of the help came from relentless Google searching, but Google was also a bit small back then. What did .NET developers do then? We made […]

With Visual Studio 2022 17.1 being available, a lot of C# features have been added. Here are a few highlights, including list patterns, slice patterns, parameter null checking, and interpolated strings. What are C# List Patterns and Slice Patterns? A List pattern allows you to match an array of lists with a sequence of patterns. […]

Microsoft is planning to end support for various versions of Visual Studio including: Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio 2017 Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 Visual Studio 2019 Preview Channel Proposed dates for end of support (including Mainstream or all support) are as follows: Version Support type End Date Support Type End Date Visual Studio 2012 […]

There are quite a few performance improvements in ASP.NET Core. In today’s ASP.NET tutorial, we will take a look at the majority of those updates, learn how they affect .NET developers, and preview some ASP.NET example code. ASP.NET 6 Core Updates The following updates are specific to ASP.NET Core 6, unless otherwise noted. We will […]

Visual Studio 2022 is largely still in its adaption stage, but Microsoft has moved quite swiftly to Preview 6. In this quick update, we will look at the issues that have been addressed in the current – and all of the previous – Previews. Visual Studio 2022 Previews Issue Updates To date there have been […]

As developers are probably aware, .NET MAUI is simply Xamarin.Forms with support for desktop applications. What is nice about this, is that .NET Maui can be used with Visual Studio Code; while experimental, it is still better than Xamarin.Forms, which does not support VS Code. .NET Maui 11 Updates .NET MAUI provides a single stack […]

The year 2022 has officially started and Microsoft has already started making their plans clear for the year. These plans will come to fruition in mid to late November of this year. We are speaking about EF 7, or Entity Framework Core 7, and .NET 7. For this article, we will concentrate specifically on EF […]

Most articles cover new features specifically tailored to C#, its improvements, and the C# development environment. Finally, with Visual Studio 2022, comes a lot of changes to the Visual Basic environment and we are going to go over most of the new features for VB in this quick .NET article. VB Features in VS Studio […]