Overview of New Features in .NET 10
Library Improvements Numeric Ordering for String Comparison In .NET 10, the System.String class adds a CompareAsNumbers method for comparing strings as numbers. This is very useful for sorting strings that contain numbers, such as file names or version numbers. StringComparer numericStringComparer = StringComparer.Create(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, CompareOptions.NumericOrdering); Console.WriteLine(numericStringComparer.Equals("02", "2")); // Output: True foreach (string os in new[] { "Windows 8", "Windows 10", "Windows 11" }.Order(numericStringComparer)) { Console.WriteLine(os); } // Output: // Windows 8 // Windows 10 // Windows 11 HashSet<string> set = new HashSet<string>(numericStringComparer) { "007" }; Console.WriteLine(set.Contains("7")); // Output: True UTF-8 Support for Hexadecimal String Conversion .NET 10 adds UTF-8 support for hexadecimal string conversion operations in the Convert class. These new methods provide an efficient way to convert between UTF-8 byte sequences and hexadecimal representations without intermediate string allocations: ...