You may have noticed as you've been developing C# applications that if you have an internal field of an internal type which you never use, we give you a warning about it. In fact, there are a number of warnings that we give for such fields, depending...

A language design question was posted to the Microsoft internal C# discussion group this morning: " Why must overloaded operators be static in C#? In C++ an overloaded operator can be implemented by a static, instance or virtual method. Is there some...

Reader Shaka comments on my post about error messages that "catastrophic failure" really does take the cake as being a terrible error message. I fondly remember the first time I saw "catastrophic failure" as an error message. I was an intern, running...

Reader Barry Kelly came up with the solution I was thinking of for my trivia question yesterday. If the value in question is, say, a nullable integer which has no value then casting it explicitly to object results in the null object. Calling a virtual...