C# 11 — What You Need to Know

With .NET 7 and C# 11 out last week, I thought this would be a good excuse for me to put my fingers to the keyboard and write up a summary on some of the latest C# features, as much for my edification as your own.

Required Members

This feature is straightforward, but I feel like it requires (ha ha) a little history to fully appreciate, and so I present:

The Road to Required

About twenty years ago, if you had a class and you had to create an instance of it, it would look…