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.NET Core Web API 36 C# Fundamentals 20 Object-Oriented Programming in C# 16 C# Collections and Generics 11 LINQ 17 Asynchronous Programming in C# 17 Advanced C# 14 C# Versions 6

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Backend PART 04

Pattern Matching in C# in Depth: Property, Positional and Tuple Patterns

Property patterns and the C# 10 extended syntax, a match that quietly fails at a null intermediate step, positional patterns with Deconstruct, a decision table with tuple patterns, not/and/or precedence and the is not A or B trap, the var pattern and when, missing and unreachable arms with CS8509, CS8524 and CS8510, and choosing between pattern matching and polymorphism.

7 Nov 2026 11 min 7

Backend PART 08

Conditions in C#: if/else, switch and Switch Expressions

The ways to make decisions in C#: why order matters in an if/else chain, braces and scope, a switch statement that forbids fall-through, the value-returning switch expression, and the relational and logical patterns of C# 9.

7 Nov 2026 10 min 5