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dotnet-8

6 posts tagged with dotnet-8.

2026-04-12 9m

SearchValues: The .NET Type That Turns Text Searching Into a SIMD Problem

SearchValues<T> analyses your search criteria once at creation time, then uses SIMD vectorisation and specialised algorithms to search spans at speeds most hand-written loops cannot match.

2026-04-11 8m

Keyed Services in .NET: The Built-In DI Feature You're Probably Not Using Yet

Keyed services bring named registrations to .NET's built-in dependency injection container, replacing custom factories and IEnumerable filtering with a clean, attribute-driven approach that works across the entire ASP.NET Core stack.

2026-03-28 8m

TimeProvider: Finally, Testable Time in .NET

How System.TimeProvider in .NET 8 replaces years of IClock wrappers with a first-class abstraction for testable, deterministic time — and how FakeTimeProvider makes testing time-dependent code straightforward.

2026-03-15 4m

Upgrading from .NET 6 to .NET 8: A Practical Checklist

A step-by-step guide to upgrading your .NET 6 applications to .NET 8, covering breaking changes, TFM updates, and common pitfalls.

2026-03-14 4m

The Configuration Binding Source Generator in .NET 8

How .NET 8's configuration binding source generator eliminates reflection from your configuration pipeline and improves AOT compatibility.

2025-09-15 4m

Frozen Collections in .NET 8

FrozenDictionary and FrozenSet trade construction time for dramatically faster lookups in read-heavy scenarios.