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July 13, 2021, written for the Q# blog

The new Microsoft.Quantum.AutoSubstitution NuGet package makes it easier to replace operations with alternatives when targeting different simulators.

December 4, 2020, written for the Q# blog

It can be helpful to implement Q# functions or operations directly in C# - either to access some API that is not directly accessible in Q# or to provide alternative implementations based on the context in which the Q# program is executed. This blog post describes techniques to programmatically replace a Q# function by another one.

August 13, 2020, written for the Q# blog

We implement a custom simulator that generates a quantum circuit diagram in the ⟨q|pic⟩ format from Q# program execution traces.

June 2, 2020, written for the Q# blog

This post is the second in a series on how to write your own Q# simulators. In this part we describe advanced features to extend the reversible simulator from the first post in the series.

May 8, 2020, written for the Q# blog

Simulators are a particularly versatile feature of the QDK. This post is the first in a series that teaches you how to write your own simulators, thereby broadly extending the scope of Q#.

December 19, 2018, written for the Q# Advent Calendar

The article is about decorating Christmas trees using the rotation gate complexity in oracle function synthesis.