Reactive Extensions for .NET Status and Plans for .NET 10

Ian Griffiths, Technical Fellow at endjin, shares the latest updates on the Reactive Extensions for .NET (AKA ReactiveX AKA Rx.NET). Learn about the new features in Rx 6.1, what .NET 10 means for the project, and the significant packaging changes coming in Rx v7.0 that finally solve the long-standing deployment bloat issue.

In this talk:

• Rx 6.1 New Features — DisposeWith operator for fluent CompositeDisposable usage, new TakeUntil overload with cancellation token support, and ResetExceptionDispatchState operator
• The Bloat Problem Explained — Why self-contained Windows deployments were pulling in 90MB of unnecessary WPF and Windows Forms assemblies
• Rx 7 Preview — How the new packaging model fixes bloat while maintaining source and binary compatibility
• Community Contributions — Features from Chris Pullman (ReactiveUI), Neils Berger, Daniel Weber, and Adam Jones
• Async Rx .NET — Status update and plans for a non-alpha release