Converting Strings to .NET Objects – IParsable and ISpanParsable 🔗
TBH I didn't yet quite understand the purpose of this, but it's good to know that it's there when I find myself with this problem. As well as describing the IParsable interface, it also describes how static member methods on interfaces can be useful.
C# "var" with a Reference Type is Always Nullable 🔗
This is unexpected:
You might expect that person is a Person in this code
var person = new Person();and you'd be right if nullable reference types are disabled. But if you enable Nullable then person is a Person?, ie it's nullable.
Static and non-static interface member calls in .NET: they are not the same 🔗
On a similar subject, this article goes into another maybe unexpect effect of static abstract interface members, namely that calling a static interface method "avoids the cost of invoking via virtual methods" that normal interface methods have.
Validating Connection Strings on .NET Startup 🔗
A nice idea if that's what you want to do, but it's just code - not really specific to .NET Startup, apart from that's where he called it.
C# 11.0 new features: Span<char> pattern matching 🔗
Interesting article about Span and switch.
A quick tour of dictionaries in C# 🔗
Exactly what it says - a quick summary of the different dictionaries in C#, as well as a few things that are similar to dictionaries.