This pages is about Swetugg Stockholm 2020. Go to Swetugg Stockholm 2024.

Mikayla Hutchinson

#dotnet 🦄 @ Microsoft

C# 8 in the real world
Liljeholmssalen, Tuesday 12:50 - 13:40

C# 8 makes nullability a first class concept, allowing you to catch null dereference bugs at compile time, and fixing the "billion dollar mistake". But how does this translate to a real world project? Come learn from Mikayla how she ported the open-source Mono. Templating T4 project to C# 8, the lessons she learned along the way, and how to take advantage of nullability checks in your own code.

Mikayla Hutchinson

Mikayla works at Microsoft on .NET. She's been working on .NET developer tools for more than a decade, including Xamarin and Visual Studio for Mac, and is passionate about user experience and inclusivity. In her free time, she enjoys game development and silversmithing.