Over the years I’ve implemented the Dispose pattern in C# more times than I can count. And if you’ve done the same, you know the drill: boilerplate, subtle rules, edge cases, async variants, thread‑safety, unmanaged resources, inheritance… and the constant risk of getting one tiny detail wrong.

So I decided to fix that.

Today I’m happy to introduce a new open‑source project:

With the version 17.10.0 Preview 3.0 of Visual Studio Preview you can test some new C# 13 features. In this blog I will explain the params Collection feature as documented in this proposal. To use this feature you have to set the LangVersion in your csproj file to preview.

The MVVM Design Pattern is mainly used in XAML enviroments like WPF, UWP, WinUI, Xamarin Forms and MAUI, because they support databinding between Controls and  Models but also between Buttons and Commands.

In .NET 8 it is possible to implement the MVVM Design Pattern in Windows Forms apps. It uses a new data binding engine which was in preview with .NET 7, and is now fully enabled in .NET 8. This new engine is modeled after WPF, which makes it easier to implement MVVM design principles. Time to write a blog post about it.

For this post I have written a simple demo Solution containing 3 projects. The ModelsLibrary project contains a ViewModel and is referenced by a Windows Forms and WPF project. I have published this solution in this GitHub repository. 

The UI of the Windows Forms and WPF apps are very simple. It shows the value of a Counter and has an Increment button to increment the value by 1. Simular to the Counter sample page of a Blazor app.