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Inline arrays enable you to create an array of fixed size in a struct type. Such a struct, with an inline buffer, should provide performance comparable to an unsafe fixed size buffer. Inline arrays are mostly to be used by the runtime team and some library authors to improve performance in certain scenarios. You likely…

C# 12 introduces a new simplified syntax for creating arrays. It looks like this: It’s important to note that the array type needs to be specified explicitly, so you cannot use var for declaring the variable. Similarly, if you wanted to create a Span<int>, you can do: Multi-dimensional arrays The advantages of this terse syntax…

dotnet script enables you to run C# scripts (.CSX) from the .NET CLI. The only requirement is to have .NET 6 or newer installed on your machine. You can use the following command to install dotnet-script globally: Then to execute a script file you simply call dotnet script <file_path> like in the example below: How…

The most likely cause of this error is an update to Flutter (flutter upgrade) which led to some incompatibility with your existing code or your project's dependencies. The Theme.of(context).accentColor property has been deprecated since Flutter 1.17 and is entirely removed from the current version, thus the error you are seeing. What to use instead Or, if…

Fix the Flutter error 'Your project requires a newer version of the Kotlin Gradle plugin' by updating the ext.kotlin_version in your build.gradle file to the latest Kotlin release.

You can use the WaitForExit method to wait for the process to complete. Your code will wait synchronously for the process to finish, then it will resume execution. Let’s look at an example: The code above will start a new cmd.exe process, and execute the timeout 5 command. The process.WaitForExit() call will force your program…

A megabyte (MB) equals one million bytes in the SI system, but can also mean 1,048,576 bytes in computing. Learn about the different definitions and conventions.

After quadrillion comes quintillion, with 18 zeroes. Discover the full list of large number names from million all the way to centillion.

The using alias directive has been relaxed in C# 12 to allow aliasing any sort of type, not just named types. This means that you can now alias tuples, pointers, array types, generic types, etc. So instead of using the full structural form of a tuple, you can now alias it with a short descriptive…

Use the new .NET 8 `JsonNamingPolicy.SnakeCaseLower` (and SnakeCaseUpper, KebabCaseLower, KebabCaseUpper) to serialize snake_case / kebab-case JSON via System.Text.Json — no custom converter needed.