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Mar 16, 2021

Announcing the Microsoft.Toolkit HighPerformance 7.0 release

The 7.0 update of the Windows Community Toolkit is finally available, including a huge number of new features (like the new MVVM Toolkit, which we presented at .NET Conf), bug fixes and lots of changes and improvements also implemented thanks to the amazing support and feedbacks from the whole community…

Programming

10 min read

Announcing the Microsoft.Toolkit HighPerformance 7.0 release

Nov 13, 2020

Enabling and using C# 9 features on older and “unsupported” runtimes

With this year’s .NET Conf just coming to a close, we have finally been introduced to the public release of .NET 5 and C# 9, which are now widely available and can be used by developers using at least Visual Studio version 16.8, …

Programming

7 min read

Enabling and using C# 9 features on older and “unsupported” runtimes

Jan 9, 2020

Optimizing string.Count all the way from LINQ to hardware accelerated vectorized instructions

I have always been very interested in code optimizations, even when achieving the best possible execution time is not really necessary — I consider trying to improve my code and squeezing out as much performance as possible to be both fun and a useful learning exercise. I have recently rewritten…

Programming

7 min read

Optimizing string.Count all the way from LINQ to hardware accelerated vectorized instructions

Sep 24, 2019

Optimizing reflection in C# via dynamic code generation

I have recently been spending a lot of time working on ComputeSharp, a .NET Standard 2.1 library written in C# 8.0 that lets you run code in parallel on the GPU through DX12 and dynamically generated HLSL compute shaders. That is a somewhat unintuitive description for a library that does…

Programming

18 min read

Optimizing reflection in C# via dynamic code generation