💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱
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1·1 month agoYes, provided you meet the criteria, so I’m guessing maybe he doesn’t… or maybe he just wants to make the point that MS are earning income from this and yet not providing any more support than a free product is providing.
He’s referring to Visual Studio.
Yes, that’s his point. That if you’ve released your app close to the end of the period, then you’re forced to upgrade your app right away, even just to keep getting security patches, on top of any bugs you might already be trying to get on top of with your newly released app. Other systems have a longer support period and you wouldn’t be faced with that.
Sorry. Hadn’t occurred to me you may not be able to see it (usually it’s me who can’t see things others post! 😂 ).
In a nutshell it boils down to the release schedule for .NET/C# - which people are paying to use - is too quick with too short support periods. He compares to another language, which is free (from memory I think it was Rust? I’d have to watch it again to see) which has the same short support periods, but is FREE. i.e. what are we paying for if we’re not getting support for any longer than something which has the same support period for free? He’s saying since MS is charging people for this, the support periods need to be longer, specifically security patches. e.g. if someone releases an app near the end of a period, then has only say 6 months before they have to upgrade it already, just to keep getting security patches. People don’t have the option to stay on their stable release for a decent amount of time, even though they’re paying for it. He just wants them to slow down the speed and increase the periods (we all know MS is all about pushing out new features over fixing bugs).
the .NET environment is vast and can be confusing, especially when new to it.
Yeah it was prompted by someone on Mastodon asking about it, and Rocky saw it. I saw the reply too, and thought it was still a little vague, then a few days later this blog post turns up :-)
BTW if anyone wants to follow him he’s Rocky Lhotka. He’s on Pixelfed too (and Bluesky), but not as much work stuff on his Pixelfed account.
I think omitting .net core is not the best decision.
Yeah that confused me a bit too, then I found he talked about it underneath the table
1·3 months agoP.S.
not just to the point of ignoring, but actively down-voting
I’ve been downvoted when I’ve made actual factual statements (which should be upvoted!) - people do like to express their displeasure 😂
I guess this community doesn’t want this kind of content, even if it’s the official dev blog
if i have to manually handle every case in a switch (or if else) statement and I was wondering how could I write, for example, a method that would do the conversion
You could still do it that way with a switch. Only the case part needs to be constant…
` switch (field.GetType().ToString()) {
case “Int”: Method((int)x)…
case “NullInt”: Method((int?)x)…
case “Long”: Method((long)x)… `
Been a while since I last did this though - you may need to do string caseType=field.GetType().ToString() first, then do switch(caseType). I think from memory you can do it the other way though.
P.S. I clicked on “code” (which just starts/ends with an apostrophe), but it doesn’t want to display as code - I don’t know why
He works at Microsoft
1·6 months agoWell, the link doesn’t load for me
Yeah, they’re doing an upgrade right now. Yes, it’s the Maths explanation - -25 is the correct answer.
1·6 months agoJust make sure you don’t use an e-calculator, nor a Texas Instruments calculator.
Within those three groups it doesn’t really matter which ones you do first
It absolutely does matter. You must do exponents after brackets and before multiplication and division, for the precise reason you said that exponents are shorthand for multiplication. In other words, there’s 4 groups, not three.
They’re all correct, since the mnemonics are just ways to remember the actual rules
-5**2 is apparently -25 because of the order of operations)
Which is correct
Got quick feedback from Gerald on Mastodon. This is a change that went live with 8.0.3 in November (then we had all those fun and games with 8.0.3 not updating!), hence why the GA users are only just now running into it. If we need the folder - i.e. in order to have something to link to - then just manually add the net8.0 back into the csproj, do a dotnet restore, and then it will build.
Links from this talk
Join dotnet.social and auto-follow @SmartmanApps@dotnet.social
How to follow multiple hashtags in a column
Github bots by Carlos Sanchez of Microsoft…
Guide to Mastodon for dotNetMAUI and dotNet peeps
Github repo of Maho Paheco of Microsoft
Maho’s guide to implement ActivityPub in a static site (or any website)
Follow Maho’s blog from Mastodon (or almost any Fediverse service!)
Follow Microsoft DevBlogs (federated thanks to Maho)
Sorry. I forgot about we were ending daylight savings this past weekend, so the times are actually GMT+10 now.
Just to be clear, it’s not MY book, but the book of whoever’s blog that is (Michael someone) - that’s the title of the blog post “My book…”.