Eric Lippert discusses this here; firstly, it is incorrect that “value types are stored on the stack”. They sometimes are, but not as: fields on a class captured variables variables in an iterator block When they can be stored on the stack it is a convenient way of modelling their lifetime, but it isn’t required … Read more
Memory. It can be cached, that’s the job of ngen.exe. It generates a .ni.dll version of the assembly, containing machine code and stored in the GAC. Which automatically gets loaded afterward, bypassing the JIT step. But that has little to do with why your program starts faster the 2nd time. The 1st time you have … Read more
Memory. It can be cached, that’s the job of ngen.exe. It generates a .ni.dll version of the assembly, containing machine code and stored in the GAC. Which automatically gets loaded afterward, bypassing the JIT step. But that has little to do with why your program starts faster the 2nd time. The 1st time you have … Read more
There are a lot of misconceptions here. I suppose you could think of .Net as a virtual machine if you really wanted, but let’s look at how the .Net Framework really handles your code. The typical scenario looks like this You write a .Net program in C#, VB.Net, F#, or some other compatible language. That … Read more
While debugging your application in Visual Studio, you can right-click on a code where you have stopped (using breakpoint) and click “Go to Disassembly”. You can debug through native instructions. As for doing that with *.exe files on disk, maybe you could use NGen to generate native output and then disassemble it (although I never … Read more
In C#, this is allowed, as per the C# Language Specication, version 4. Section 1.10 Enums doesn’t explicitly mention the possibility but, later on in section 14 Enums, 14.3, we see: Multiple enum members may share the same associated value. The example enum Color { Red, Green, Blue, Max = Blue } shows an enum … Read more
Check out the System.Environment.Version property. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.environment.version
The point of the .NETCore subset was to keep a .NET install small. And easy to port. Which is why you can, say, run a Silverlight app on both Windows and OSX and not wait very long when you visit the web page. Downloading and installing the complete runtime and framework takes a handful of … Read more
How They Are Stored Both the string and the char[] are stored on the heap – so storage is the same. Internally I would assume a string simply is a cover for char[] with lots of extra code to make it useful for you. Also if you have lots of repeating strings, you can make … Read more
Parameters values aren’t stored in StackFrame instance. In fact, they aren’t recorded/logged at all, unless you choose to do it explicitly. One obvious way to log theses values is to use AOP. It would certainly imply a cost, but in conjunction with a logging framework and the right log level, it may be an alternative. … Read more