Working with Preview Features
Learn about preview features, allowing developers to explore and provide feedback on upcoming functionalities like C# 11 features.
It is a challenge for Microsoft to deliver some new features that have cross-cutting effects across many parts of .NET, like the runtime, language compilers, and API libraries. It is the classic chicken and egg problem. What do we do first?
From a practical perspective, it means that although Microsoft might have completed most of the work needed for a feature, the whole thing might not be ready until very late in their now annual cycle of .NET releases, too late for proper testing in “the wild.”