Did you know? The original usage of the term “computer” referred to people (mostly women), not machines. It’s possible that one day the word “programmer” could morph into meaning “AI”, and no longer refers to a person. .NET news Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement 🚮…

Curated .NET and C# news for August 2023.

Did you know? The acronym “ASP” stands for Active Server Pages, which was released by Microsoft in 1996. In 2002, Microsoft decided to continue using the name, but apply it to their new .NET framework so they added “.NET” to the acronym. Since then, we’ve known this technology as ASP.NET. .NE…

Want to learn Blazor? Then we have good news for you! On our JetBrains .NET Guide, we've just published the Blazor Essentials tutorial. Blazor lets you to create progressive web apps using C#, having significantly less reliance on JavaScript that was necessary in previous versions of ASP.NET. T…

Did you know? More than 400 billion PDFs were opened in Adobe products in the last year. Wow! That’s a lot of PDFs! How many did you open last year? .NET news Announcing Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro Announcing .NET 8 Preview 4 ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 4 EF Cor…

Did you know? There is a difference between compilation and transpilation. The short explanation is that compilers use code from one language to produce output, usually binary. Transpilers are a type of compiler that produce source code but at the same level of abstraction, so the output is usually …

Did you know? JavaScript was released on December 4, 1995, after being quickly developed over 10 days, to work with the Netscape browser. It stuck around, became popular, and in 1997 folks finally recognized the need for formal structure and support, via ECMA. The rest is history as it has taken ove…

Did you know? There is a difference between the terms "argument" and "parameter", despite everyone using them interchangeably. As is explained in this Stack Overflow question: "A parameter is a variable in a method definition. When a method is called, the arguments are the data you pass into the met…

Did you know? The official birthday of the internet is January 1, 1983. While there already was a prototype of several connected computers since the 1960’s, they had no standard way to communicate. That is, until January 1, 1983, when ARPANET and the Defense Data Network moved over to the TCP/IP sta…

It’s that time, again! The software development industry at large starts the new year with a retrospective of the previous. Just like during our software development projects. We at JetBrains run the Developer Ecosystem Survey yearly to capture the zeitgeist of the development world. While the su…

Did you know? Though these terms are often used interchangeably, there is a difference between a parameter and an argument. A parameter is only the definition of something that’s passed into a function and is found in the function's signature. Parameters usually define the name and type of allowed f…

Did you know? Defects in software are called “bugs” because of an early incident in computing in which  Dr. Grace Hopper found an actual moth to be the culprit of mysterious but consistent error messages. Do you have a fun computing trivia tidbit? Share it with us so we can add it to a futur…