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A Closer Look at 5 New Features in C# 10

We’ve been speculating about the future of C# 10 for a while. The possibilities are no secret. Spend some time on the C# GitHub page and you’ll find a long list of tantalizing ideas — some with major headaches still being hashed out.

Date, Time, and Time Zone Enhancements in .NET 6

I’m excited to share with you some of the improvements that have been made to .NET that are coming in .NET 6 in the area of dates, times, and time zones. You can try out all of the following, starting with .NET 6 Preview 4.

string vs. String is not a style debate

Often I see developers debating using String vs. string as if it’s a simple style decision. No different than discussing the position of braces, tabs vs. spaces, etc … A meaningless distinction where there is no right answer, just finding a decision everyone can agree on.

Hacking a Cheap Ammeter / Voltmeter to Provide a Bluetooth PC Interface

I love analyzing data, so any time I work with a device that measures something, I usually want to save its output. I've lately come to enjoy the cheap panel-mount volt meters and current meters on eBay, and figured it would be cool to hack one to provide PC logging capability.

Dual Display Hack - ebay special to Differential Current

In an effort to evaluate simple and accurate display for my various Power projects a little while back including my analogue DC load , I found and bought some panel meters from aliexpress herehttp://www.aliexpress.com/item/Blue-R...on initial examination hey seemed to have issues when used for all b

Fantastic DIY Speakers for less than $30!

We demonstrate high performance, low cost, unusual audio speakers with a complete explanation of their operation and a guide to how you can construct them yourself.

How To Build "The World's Best Speakers" - Are Flat Panel Speakers Really Any Good?

Flat panel speakers built from foam boards and Dayton Audio exciters can't really sound good, right? Over on @Tech Ingredients they shared a design for "The World's Best Speakers". I just could not believe speakers made out of a $5 piece of foam board outperformed many bookshelf speakers, so I decid

Ella Vater - The Mini Vandals [No Copyright Music] // YouTube Audio Library

Track Info: Royalty Free Music, No Copyright Music, Creative Commons Music, Free Audio Library, Copyright Free Music Artist : The Mini Vandals Title : Ella Vater Genre : Jazz & Blues Mood : Happiness Download: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary_download?vid=a0a6ed7a812

Setting assembly and nuget package metadata in .NET Core

The new csproj format introduces two major changes that are important from the artifact metadata management perspective. First of all, a NuGet package definition was moved into the project file which allows sharing common attributes between NuGet package manifest and assembly info.

Let's talk about Blazor, baby!

There are a lot of .NET developers that have mostly worked in backend systems, in older and sometimes legacy web-frontend (such as WebForms, MVC, HTML + jQuery, etc.).

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

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