C# Digest - C#521 Understanding .NET stack traces

September 02, 2024 | Read Online

Understanding .NET stack traces
13 minutes by Thomas Ardal

Stack traces are important for debugging and understanding exceptions in .NET applications. They provide detailed information about the error and the call stack when an exception occurs, allowing us as developers to investigate why an error happened.

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Checked and Unchecked Arithmetic Operations in .NET
4 minutes by Khalid Abuhakmeh

Avoiding OverflowException when using arithmetic operations. The other day, I played around with the Fibonacci sequence and overflowed my int variables in surprisingly low iterations. Did you know you’ll overflow an integer in 48 iterations? Don’t believe me? Let’s take a look at the result of the code you’ll see later in this post.

BinaryFormatter removed from .NET 9
5 minutes by Immo Landwerth

Starting with .NET 9, there isn't an implementation of BinaryFormatter in the runtime. This post covers what options you have to move forward.

Working With DTO Auto Translators
6 minutes by Peter Ritchie

Modern software applications heavily rely on external services, making data transfer a crucial aspect of application functionality. Translation from one syntax to another must first map source data elements to target data elements. That mapping includes the necessary conversion method.

2 ways to use custom equality rules in a HashSet
7 minutes by Davide Bellone

With HashSet, you can get a list of different items in a performant way. What if you need a custom way to define when two objects are equal?