Aug
27
2015
Building Windows applications using JavaScript on Windows 10 is opening up new opportunities for developers. We cover how you can leverage your current web workflow for publishing code on the server while still having a single application published in the Windows store. This session covers the investments we’ve made for hosted content on the web including updates to the WebView control.
Aug
14
2015
With Visual Studio 2015 available for all, I wanted to explore new language features in C# 6 that you can try right from this blog post!
Interactive Code Sample
// allows calling static members without class name
using static System.Console;
using static System.String;
using static System.Linq.Enumerable;
public class Person
{
// auto property initializer
public string FirstName { get; set; } = "John";
public string LastName { get; set; } = "Doe";
// readonly property initialized with expression body
// assigned to value returned from string interpolation
public string FullName => $"{FirstName} {LastName}";
// method defined with expression body
public string GetLastNameFirst() => $"{LastName.ToUpper()}, {FirstName}";
public void Test(string testName)
{
var dash = "-";
var dashLength = 30 - testName.Length;
// use {{ and }} for literal "{" and "}"
// use {{{ and }}} to wrap a value within "{" and "}"
// repeating a dash with length not to exceed 30
// WriteLine | Concat | Repeat == using static :)
WriteLine($"{{{testName}}} {Concat(Repeat(dash,dashLength))}");
WriteLine(FullName);
WriteLine(GetLastNameFirst());
WriteLine();
}
}
// test default
var um = new Person();
// nameof returns the string name of the instance
um.Test(nameof(um));
// test initialized
var palermo4 = new Person()
{ FirstName = "Michael", LastName = "Palermo" };
palermo4.Test(nameof(palermo4));
// interactive! click go -->