C#7 and Visual Studio 2017

Explore the latest features of C# 7 and Visual Studio 2017 in this comprehensive 59-minute conference talk. Discover how these new additions enhance everyday coding practices while gently introducing functional programming concepts. Learn to simplify your code using pattern matching for improved casting, value checking, and creating more elegant switch statements. Dive into C# 7 tuples, which offer efficient solutions for returning multiple values from methods and handling transient data. Understand the power of deconstruction, including overloaded deconstruction, to extract specific values with ease. Explore additional features such as "out vars" for streamlined declarations, as well as literals and local functions. By the end of this talk, gain the knowledge needed to confidently upgrade to C# 7 and understand its role in the gradual shift towards functional programming paradigms.