The megabyte is a unit of digital information, denoted by the symbol MB. In the International System of Units (SI), the prefix “mega” represents a multiplier of 1,000,000 (10^6). Hence, one megabyte is equivalent to one million bytes of information, and this definition is now an integral part of the International System of Quantities. However,…
This is quite a frequent question. You’ve got: But what comes after quadrillion? The answer is: quintillion. A quintillion, has 18 zeroes. That’s a lot of zeroes: 1.000.000.000.000.000.000. But there’s more. If you look past the quintillion, you’ve got: Interested in how long it would take a PC to count to a trillion? Check out…
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…
.NET 8 introduces several new naming policies that can be used with the System.Text.Json serializer. To name them: Let’s look at the serialized output for each of them. For this, we’re going to use a Car class with the following definition: And we are going to serialize the following object instance: Lower snake case (snake_case)…
The With…End With statement in VB allows you to execute a series of statements that epeatedly refer to a single object. Thus the statements can use a simplified syntax for accesing members of the object. For example: Is there a C# syntax equivalent? No. There is not. The closest thing to it would be the…
With .NET 8 we are introduced to a new dictionary type which improves the performance of read operations. The catch: you are not allowed to make any changes to the keys and values once the collection is created. This type is particularly useful for collections that are populated on first use and then persisted for…
Starting from C# 12, it is possible to define a primary constructor within classes and structs. The parameters are placed in parentheses right after the type name. The parameters of a primary constructor have a broad scope. They can be utilized to initialize properties or fields, serve as variables in methods or local functions, and…
The correct syntax for generating a project with AOT is –aot (with 2 hyphens). In this particular case, the correct command would be:
Starting with Microsoft Graph .NET SDK 5.0, the QueryOption class is no longer used. Instead, query options are set using the requestConfiguration modifier. Let’s take a simple example: If you must use QueryOptions, your only alternative is to downgrade the Microsoft Graph package to a 4.x version.
When using dotnet script you can pass arguments by specifying them after — (two dashes). You can the access the arguments in the script using the Args collection. Let’s take an example. Assume we have the following myScript.csx script file: We can pass parameter to this script as follows:
C# is a modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft. It is widely used for Windows desktop applications, games (especially using the Unity engine), and web development through the ASP.NET framework. C# is considered to be beginner-friendly and is a great language for new programmers. Below we explore some of the reasons why C#…
Could not execute because the specified command or file was not found.Possible reasons for this include:– You misspelled a built-in dotnet command.– You intended to execute a .NET Core program, but dotnet-ef does not exist.– You intended to run a global tool, but a dotnet-prefixed executable with this name could not be found on the…