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.

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

In C#, callback is frequently used. For example, a very simple Add function, without asynchrony:

Unlike the Reader< , > monad, the Writer< , > monad output contents with a sequence of functions:

Sometimes there are functions work with a shared environment. Typical examples are: