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Fixed Size Buffers (C# Programming Guide)

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Written by Thong D. Nguyen Wednesday, 02 March 2011 09:26

Source: MSDN

In C# 2.0, you can us the fixed statement to create a with a fixed size array in a data structure. This is useful when working with existing code, such as code written in other languages, pre-existing DLLs or COM projects. The fixed array can take any of the attributes or modifiers that are allowed for regular struct members. The only restriction is that the array type must be bool, byte, char, short, int, long, sbyte, ushort, uint, ulong, float, or double.

Inline Warning Control

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Written by Thong D. Nguyen Wednesday, 02 March 2011 09:24

Source: blog.msdn.com

Another feature that we added for Whidbey is the ability to selectively disable warnings within your code. For example:

#pragma warning disable 135

// Disable warning CS135 in this block

#pragma warning restore 135

Namespace Alias Qualifier (C# Programming Guide)

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Written by Thong D. Nguyen Wednesday, 02 March 2011 09:19

Source: MSDN

The ability to access a member in the global namespace is useful when the member might be hidden by another entity of the same name.

For example, in the following code, Console resolves to TestApp.Console instead of to the Console type in the System namespace.