Introducing the .NET Community Toolkit - MVVM, Performance, Diagnostics, & More

This week James is joined by Sergio Pedri, a software engineer on the Microsoft Store client team and contributor to the .NET Community Toolkit to talk about the most recent preview of the toolkit! The brand new .NET Community Toolkit features several libraries to help developers build apps faster with support for MVVM source generators, performance APIs, and advanced diagnostics. The library has no dependencies on any specific UI frameworks, so they can be used by all developers regardless of the framework or runtime they choose to work on their projects. That is, the .NET Community Toolkit can be referenced by applications and libraries targeting .NET, .NET Core, .NET Standard, .NET Framework, WPF, UWP, .NET MAUI, Xamarin, Unity, and more! Blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ifdef-windows/announcing-net-community-toolkit-v8-0-0-preview-1?WT.mc_id=dotnet-29192-cxa MVVM Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/communitytoolkit/mvvm/introduction?WT.mc_id=dotnet-29192-cxa Diagnostics Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/communitytoolkit/diagnostics/introduction?WT.mc_id=dotnet-29192-cxa Performance Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/communitytoolkit/high-performance/introduction?WT.mc_id=dotnet-29192-cxa Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:40 - Who is Sergio Pedri? 03:10 - What is in the .NET Community Toolkit? 09:30 - MVVM Toolkit, Source Generators, Validators 18:30 - Validator Deep Dive 22:45 - MVVM Commands 27:20 - Diagnostics - Guard and ThrowHelpers 34:00 - Performance - StringPool, MemoryOwner, SpanOwner, Span2D 39:30 - Wrap-up 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET: https://aka.ms/dotnet-qa 🏫 Learn C#, F#, and .NET with free self-guided learning from Microsoft Learn: https://aka.ms/learndotnet #DotNet #mvvm #sourcegenerators