The FrozenSet and FrozenDictionary classes introduced in .NET 8 are immutable collections optimized for fast look-ups. Here’s ...

Microsoft has announced that performance improvements have been made to the runtime and base class libraries in .NET Core ... now uses a native decompression library. The native compression ...

Several classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) provide both synchronous and asynchronous method signatures. Because a synchronous method call can create a delay in program flow ...

Microsoft has released .Net Framework 4.6.2, tightening security in multiple areas, including the BCL (Base Class Library). The new version also makes improvements to the SQL client, Windows ...

instead of JavaScript. .NET 7 shipped this week, finally unifying separate components into one umbrella development platform that lets developers build all types of apps -- cloud, desktop, mobile, web ...

That will enable developers to build all types of apps -- desktop, mobile, web and more -- on the same Base Class Library (BCL), runtime and compilers. We say finally because that's what .NET 5 was ...

A commonly requested feature in .NET is the ability to use covariant ... that new attribute would have to be added to the BLC (Base Class Library), meaning it wouldn’t be immediately available ...

Microsoft has opened the source code to the .NET Framework libraries under a read-only reference license. Developers who want to check out the source code need only upgrade to the newly released ...

"Even though the scenarios of .NET Native (touch based devices) and ASP.NET 5 (server side web development) are quite different, we were able to provide a unified Base Class Library (BCL)." ...