A query was raised by Ilya Ryzhenkov on Thread.Name: "What's the reason of Thread.Name property be write-once?" Ilya, the response I got was from Chris Brumme , an architect on the CLR team. Chris points out that if you care about the name of your...

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The following question was asked by Ilya Ryzhenkov: "Why would String.EndsWith(char c) be internal?" Ilya, this is something we would consider expanding to make public in future versions, its just that the incremental value of this particular...

The following feature request was made by Ilya Ryzhenkov: "There is IBindingList in ComponentModel, which allows collections provide notifications about their changes. I'd opt for IBindingObject as well, which probably has single PropertyChanged event...

The following suggestion was made by Keith Hill, via the BCL Web Site: "We have to deal with binary files that are in a standard format which is big endian. It would have been nice to use the BitConverter and/or BinaryReader/Writer classes but they...

Keith Hill made this suggestion via the BCL Web Page: "Consider the new exception System.RuntimeException derives from System.SystemException. I would put the following exceptions under System.RuntimeException: IndexOutOfRangeException, NullReferenceException...

References to MSDN TV episodes by the BCL team were added...

References to MSDN TV episodes by the BCL team were added...

Article and FAQs Added [Anthony Moore]...