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Did you know? The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005. The first video was uploaded on April 23, 2005 titled Me at the zoo, which has over 230 million views as of June 2022. .NET news Announcing .NET 7 Preview 4ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 4Announcing Entity Framework 7 Preview 4.NET MAUI Release Candidate 3Announcing gRPC JSON transcoding for .NETRe

Did you know? Screensavers were introduced to stop images getting burned into your PC screens. It’s true! Older screens weren't nearly as nice as they are now. If you left your monitor on for long periods of time and left a wallpaper or program visible, it would burn traces of it into the screen. Much like when you look directly at a light and then look away. .NET news C# 11 Preview

Did you know? ReSharper once existed as a standalone IDE built with WinForms, in addition to being a plugin to Visual Studio. If you’re interested in ReSharper’s and Rider’s inner workings, Maarten Balliauw has a great talk on the subject.  .NET news Updates for spring in the Northern Hemisphere/fall in the Southern Hemisphere:  Announcing .NET 7 Preview 2 – The New, ‘New’ ExperienceA

Did you know? On Windows, it's not possible to create a folder named "con". Windows will display a dialog saying "The specified device name is invalid". That's because “con” is a reserved word dating back to MS-DOS.  .NET news Performance improvements in ASP.NET Core 6Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 12 (Latest Preview)State of the Windows Forms Designer for .NET ApplicationsAnnouncing

Did you know? Microsoft used the name C# in 1988. This language had nothing in common with the C# of today as it was a variant of the C language, and was discontinued. It wasn't until 2002 that Microsoft released the language named C# that we know today, with the release of the .NET Framework 1.0. .NET news December is a slow news month on most years, but here are a few highlights to che

We're wrapping up 2021 and heading into a brand new year. Many peoples around the world celebrate one holiday or another very soon, so to those celebrating we wish the happiest of holidays and extend the warmest of greetings for 2022! 🎉 Did you know? The term "WiFi" stands for "Wireless Fidelity", and while the concept of WiFi is older than the 1970's, the first implementation was in Ha

Did you know? There is a difference between a parameter and an argument. Many programmers use them interchangeably, but they have distinct definitions in formal computer science. In short, a parameter is what is in the definition of the function, while the argument is the data that is passed into the function at runtime. .NET news October has been busy at Microsoft. Here's the latest new

Did you know? The first person to write a program was Ada Lovelace, in 1843. Ada was an English mathematician and writer who worked on Charles Babbage's machine, the "Analytical Engine". She realized that computers have applications beyond mathematical calculations and thus became the first person to create an algorithm to put those non-mathematical applications to use. How amazed would Ada be if

Did you know? There is a reason for why the language C was named C, and it's all about our A, B, C's. It's because there was a language called B and C comes after B in the alphabet! It sounds like a joke, but it's not. Really! In addition, C did borrow a few concepts from B, so this seemed like a natural progression in naming. But B wasn't called B because it came after A. B was an implementation

Did you know? The first computer mouse was invented in 1964 and was made of wood. Indeed, it was! We've come a long way since then. Nowadays, computer mice are made with acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic and are quite advanced when compared to early models. .NET news .NET Foundation Election 2021 Nominations are Open!Announcing .NET 6 Preview 6Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 6Mi

Did you know? Microsoft created a C based language named C# in 1988? 1988!? You heard that right! It's true! This language, of course, was not the C# that we all know and love today. Meanwhile, Rico Mariani says in that same article that the code name for VB version 1 was named "Thunder". Befitting. .NET news What’s new in Windows Forms in .NET 6.0 Preview 5Package ValidationAnnouncing .

Did you know? There are over 220 billion (yes, billion!) lines of COBOL still in use today! It sounds crazy, but it's true. A substantial part of the US government on both the federal and state level use COBOL as well as finance and private industry have COBOL systems. Many .NET developers hope that .NET will someday have this legacy, but this happened in part because of the extreme expense of mai