Author Archives: Jesse Liberty

About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET will be released early in 2025. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Microsoft MVP.

Don’t Miss Mads Torgersen on C# 8 and 9

A few weeks back we had Mads Torgersen on Yet Another Podcast. It is too good and too important to miss.

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Interactive Rebase

Following along from my previous blog post on rebasing, this post will cover interactive rebasing. The first thing to know about interactive rebasing is that as far as the programmer is concerned it has nothing to do with rebasing. The … Continue reading

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You Already Know Git

In celebration of my newest book: Git For Programmers I’m starting a short series of blog posts on some of the more interesting features of Git. You already know Git These posts assume you know what Version Control is and … Continue reading

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Jeff Fritz on Blazor, Azure & Much More

Much is in .NET 5, much more is coming in .Net 6. Jeff and I explore all the new goodies. Links will be posted soon.

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C# 9 Series

In case you missed it, here is an aggregation of the five podcasts we’ve done on C# 9 recently.

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.NET Documentation & C# 9

Bill Wagner of the C# 9 Documentation team at Microsoft talks about changes and improvements to the Microsoft documentation as well as key features in C# 9 What’s new in C# 9:  https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/Explore Record types: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/tutorials/recordsRecords reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/recordExplore Pattern matching: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/tutorials/patterns-objectsPattern matching tutorial: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/tutorials/pattern-matchingPatterns reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/patterns

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.NET Maui Preview 3

Is here! Read David Ortinau’s blogpost

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C For Fun

Old but gold… /** find the important things in Life, the Universe, and Everything*/ typedef short some; /* some things are short */typedef some very; /* some things are very short */ #define A /* The first letter of the … Continue reading

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Jon Galloway on Visual Studio Mac

Jon joins us again, this time to talk about Visual Studio Mac and Maui!

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Xamarin Best Practices

In a recent blog post, I showed the C# best practices we use at my current placement. Today, the Xamarin best practices: Xamarin 🐒 Best Practices The Do’s 🙌 👍 Catch XAML Errors Early Add the following attribute to code … Continue reading

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C# Coding Standards – Updated

Let’s face it, most coding standards are arbitrary. The key to a successful project, however, is not which standards you follow, but that you are consistent. Here is a partial list of the C# coding standards my team uses and … Continue reading

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Mads Torgersen! C# 9 & Beyond

Microsoft’s Mads Torgersen– Lead Designer of C# — talks about how to know when to use the new features in C# 8 and 9, and more. Photo credit: Jesse Liberty

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