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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

Did you know? C# has a goto statement. It's true. But before you run out there to try this in your code, this is a great time to paraphrase the words of the honorable scientist Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park: "Your developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should". Definitely stop and think if you "should" before using goto. .NET news

Did you know? There are over 30 languages that target the .NET CLI. The .NET CLI is an open specification of the runtime environment of the .NET framework. Perhaps you're getting bored with the same old .NET language. Why not try something like Cobra or X#? .NET news Introducing the .NET Upgrade Assistant Preview Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 2 Announcing .NET 6 Preview 2 Public p

Did you know? Windows used to be called Interface Manager. Interface Manager was supposed to be the name of the product, but was changed to Windows to solidify Microsoft's branding. In 1983 at Comdex, Windows was announced to the world. Naming is hard! .NET news There's not a lot of .NET news happening at the moment. But there have been a few previews released in the previous month, and an upda

Happy February! Do you know this computing trivia fact? Why is the C language is named C? Because it comes after B. It almost seems too simple. But we're not kidding! .NET news Happy 10th Birthday, NuGet! The Plan for Entity Framework Core 6.0 Diagnostics improvements in .NET 5 Azure Active Directory’s gateway is on .NET Core 3.1 Windows Terminal Preview 1.6 Release Featured Content How to be

Happy new year! It's now 2021 and if you're reading this, you survived the crazy year that has been 2020! For this year, we'll start the .NET Annotated newsletter with fun tidbits of computing information. If you have fun computing or computer language trivia, facts, or tips, send them to us! We'll do our best to fit them in here. Did you know? The acronym BASIC means "Beginners All-Purpose S

Here we are, at the end of 2020. Many around the world are entering their peak of the holiday season, so happy holidays to you! We at JetBrains hope you stay safe, healthy, and happy through 2021 and beyond. This month in computing history reveals the first PhD granted in the field of Computer Science, in 1965. Richard L. Wexelblat earned the title at the University of Pennsylvania, the home of th

In 1995, Microsoft shipped Internet Explorer 2.0. Do you remember browsing the internet in 1995? According to Internet Live Stats, there were about 23,500 sites. That's all there was, and Geocities was one of them. By today's standards, most of those 23,500 sites were aesthetically awful. Later, in 2004, Firefox entered the scene to compete with IE. Web developers everywhere are familiar with its