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Debugging unhandled exceptions in your code might not be the way you've planned to spend your afternoon. On the other hand, at least its...

One of the most commonly used commands in SOS is !CLRStack . When combined with the -p switch, SOS will attempt to display the values of t...

A while back I've mentioned in a post that calling DateTime.Now causes boxing. Following the posting, a feedback item was also posted ...

And in today's post... a riddle. Actually, it comes down to a short C# program that deals with string comparisons, and demonstrates a s...

One of the advantages/disadvantages of the .Net Framework is its usage of JIT Compilation: The process in which machine code is generated f...

Lately, a discussion in a C# user group raised the question "In which synchronization primitive does the CLR uses when I call Monitor.E...

As we all probably know, the C# language specification demands that every declared local variable will be assigned-to before its usage. Eve...

One of the first rules that every .Net programmer learns to memorize is "Never use the + operator to combine strings. Only use the Stri...

No less than 6 years ago, Luca Bolognese wrote a post that dealt with an issue raised in the C# User Group. The question was "What sho...

Update 2.9.2010 The content of this post regards DateTime.Now's implementation until v3.5. At the release of v4.0, its internal impl...