Month: August 2007

Update: as Daniel Moth has pointed out in the comments, it is possible to use extension methods in Orcas projects targeting .NET 2.0 by introducing your own System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute class. See Daniel’s blog post for more details. One of the neat things about Visual Studio 2008 is that you can target .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. I’m hoping to start using it professionally shortly after it’s released – assuming stability and performance aren’t an issue, of course. The great thing is that some of the C# 3 features don’t require any framework support at all (and none of them require CLR … Continue reading Extension methods and .NET 2.0

I’ve been looking at C# 3 in a fair amount of detail recently, and likewise going over the features of C# 2. (I hope to be able to be less coy about all this soon.) I’m beginning to think that while it’s all great for existing C# 1 and C# 2 developers, I feel sorry for someone wanting to learn C# 3 from scratch. It’s becoming quite a big language – and of course the framework is big and getting bigger (more on that in another post). I’m generally a fan of small languages whose functionality is provided by libraries. … Continue reading Is C# 3 too big to learn from scratch?