In this chapter, you need to have the .NET 9 SDK installed, and the Metadata Tools to check the IL code.
Currently, this tool is in preview and needs to be installed with a preview feed.
Metadata Tools can be installed from the prerelease source:
dotnet tool install mdv -g --prerelease --add-source https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_packaging/dotnet-tools/nuget/v3/index.json In this chapter, Visual Studio 2022 can be used to build and run the applications.
- BehindTheScenes - a simple console application which helps understanding generics
- GamesSample - creating a generic interface, generic classes, and generic methods, and using record structs and tuples as generic parameters
- NumericSample - implementing and using operators with generics
- AllowRefStruct - using the anti-constraint
allow ref struct
The GamesSample project uses the conditional compilation symbol USERECORDS. If this compilation symbol is set in the project file, a C# record struct is used for the ShapeResult type. If this symbol is not set, tuples are used instead.