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Did you know? The GC.KeepAlive() method in the .NET Framework is not used to prevent garbage collection of an object for the entire method scope, as you might think. Instead, it explicitly ensures that the object remains referenced at a specific point in the code after it's last used. It’s particula…

Did you know? The Y2K bug, or "Millennium Bug," was a programming issue caused by storing years with only two digits (e.g., "1999" as "99") to save memory. As 2000 approached, systems risked interpreting "00" as 1900, leading to potential errors in calculations and data processing. Fears of disru…

Welcome to dotInsights August edition by JetBrains! This newsletter is the home of recent .NET and software development-related content.

Did you know? In C#, you can use a feature called caller info attributes to obtain information about the caller of a method. This can be incredibly useful for logging, debugging, or tracing. The attributes CallerMemberName, CallerFilePath, and CallerLineNumber provide information such as the name of…

Welcome to dotInsights August edition by JetBrains! This newsletter is the home of recent .NET and software development-related content.

Did you know? The BinaryFormatter class was traditionally used in .NET for serializing and deserializing objects into a binary format. However, it has been deprecated in 2020 due to serious security vulnerabilities that can allow for remote code execution when deserializing untrusted data. We…

Did you know? A commonly used sorting algorithm known as Bogosort is also referred to as the 'slow sort'. Because the algorithm works by generating all permutations of its input until it finds one that is sorted, makes it significantly inefficient and impractical for large data sets. Despite its imp…

Did you know? When Microsoft initially started developing C#, it was internally known by the codename "Cool", which stood for "C-like Object Oriented Language". ? ? Featured Content Have you been wondering how to incorporate AI into your daily programming workflows or what you can use AI f…

Welcome to dotInsights by JetBrains! This newsletter is the home for recent .NET and software development related content. Featured Content This month, we bring you featured content from Dennis Dietrich! Dennis Dietrich is a manager at Phoenix Contact's Industrial Cabinet Solutions (ICS) busin…

Can you make your life easier as a developer by using AI to generate unit tests? AI can provide a bit of automation to this daily development activity and make our development workflow a bit smoother if we use it thoughtfully. So in this blog post, we’ll take a look at using the JetBrains AI Assista…

Welcome to dotInsights by JetBrains! It's the place for recent .NET and software development related content. 📜 Featured Content This month, we bring you featured content from Chris Woodruff! Chris, along with JetBrains developer advocates Maarten and Khalid host the Breakpoint Show. C…

The JetBrains professional design department creates the awesome splash screens that we all know and love for every Rider release. However, our design team only makes the splash screens for our release and Early Access Program (EAP) versions. Many folks on our team use nightly builds, that really…