.NET Core 3.0 contains changes improve the parsing and formatting for floating point values. These were changes that started in .NET Core 2.1 and are now almost done, with .NET Core 3.0 being updated to be IEEE compliant. One of the biggest repercussions of this change is that the... Read more

Nearly two years ago I introduced Language Specs. At that time, I’d been helping Microsoft move their language specs for C# and VB to markdown and hosted on GitHub. The website acts as your “one stop shop” for finding the official language specs for a variety of popular... Read more

It’s been several years (and a few Visual Studio versions) since I last blogged about my favorite visual studio extensions and a lot has changed since then. This time around, rather than just listing my favorites, I decided to create some public Visual Studio Extensions that make it... Read more

Over the last few weeks I’ve been making some improvements to my blog. One of those improvements was an update to the theme. When I originally moved my blog I used a layout based on beautiful-jekyll and hyde. Now that Bootstrap 4 has been out for a... Read more

Many blogs, especially business blogs, have multiple authors or have occasional guest authors. In those cases, it’s always a good idea to include a small author bio on their blog post and even give your readers a way to find other posts written by that author. Just like the possible... Read more