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Did you know? The Original Name of .NET Was "Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS)". Before Microsoft officially named it “.NET,” the platform was internally referred to as NGWS: Next Generation Windows Services. The name ".NET" was adopted in the late 1990s to emphasize the platform's focus on we…

Did you know? C# allows you to define custom operators for your own types by overloading built-in operators (like +, -, ==, etc.). This is not something most developers use often, and it can make your code behave like native types, which is a powerful but underutilized feature. Welcome to dot…

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 …

Did you know? The attribute in .NET is a powerful feature that allows an assembly to expose its internal members (normally only accessible within the same assembly) to another specified assembly. This is typically used in scenarios like unit testing or multi-assembly projects where tight integr…

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…