Currently, Microsoft has the second preview of C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0, with a lot of new features and new APIs. This part of C# 8.0 series demonstrates how to setup the environment.

C#, .NET Core, Azure, Functional Programming, Lambda Calculus, Category Theory, LINQ, LINQ to Objects, LINQ to XML, Parallel LINQ, LINQ to Entities, Entity Framework Core, Azure SQL Database.

LINQ operators to enable C# 8.0 index and range new features working with LINQ queries and any type that implements `IEnumerable<T>`.

Microsoft has a C# example of uploading file to FTP server in MSDN .aspx

This article demonstrates how to setup a passive FTP server in a Azure virtual machine running Windows.

Windows PE (WinPE) is a small version of Windows, which can be used to boot up computers from CD or USB disk drive. It is very useful to deploy or repair the desktop or server edition of Windows. For

I use Windows’ Hyper-V to run virtual machines for long time. Recently I need to run a VMware virtual machine to test something. I installed VMware Player, which is free for non-commercial usage. Howe

In functional programming, there are many powerful tools and patterns, like lambda expression, purity, deferred execution, immutability, fluent LINQ query composition, … But everything has a cost. As