We’re back! With C# 7.0 and Visual Studio 2017 just recently shipped, we paint the big picture: let’s lay out where the C# language and tooling experience is headed, and show early glimpses of what we’re currently working on.

2. @MadsTorgersen, @dcampbell

3. stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017#most-popular-technologies

4. stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted

5. F#
10,000’s
Tens of thousands
VB
100,000’s
Hundreds of thousands
C#
1,000,000’s
Millions

6. F#
10,000’s
Tens of thousands
VB
100,000’s
Hundreds of thousands
C#
1,000,000’s
Millions

7. F#
10,000’s
Tens of thousands
VB
100,000’s
Hundreds of thousands
C#
1,000,000’s
Millions

8. F#
10,000’s
Tens of thousands
VB
100,000’s
Hundreds of thousands
C#
1,000,000’s
Millions

9. Demos!
More demos!

10. IAsyncEnumerable<Person> people = database.GetPeopleAsync();
foreach await (var p in people) { … }
using await (IAsyncDisposable resource = await store.GetRecordAsync(…)) { … }

11. extension Enrollee extends Person
{
// static field
static Dictionary<Person, Professor> enrollees = new Dictionary<Person, Professor>();
// instance method
public void Enroll(Professor supervisor) { enrollees[this] = supervisor; }
// instance property
public Professor Supervisor => enrollees.TryGetValue(this, out var supervisor) ? supervisor : null;
// static property
public static ICollection<Person> Students => enrollees.Keys;
// instance constructor
public Person(string name, Professor supervisor) : this(name) { this.Enroll(supervisor); }
}

12. class Person : IEquatable<Person>
{
public string First { get; }
public string Last { get; }
public Person(string First, string Last) => (this.First, this.Last) = (First, Last);
public void Deconstruct(out string First, out string Last)
=> (First, Last) = (this.First, this.Last);
public bool Equals(Person other)
=> other != null && First == other.First && Last == other.Last;
public override bool Equals(object obj) => obj is Person other ? Equals(other) : false;
public override int GetHashCode() => GreatHashFunction(First, Last);
…
}
class Person(string First, string Last);

14. @roslyn @dcampbell @MadsTorgersen