Original: pvs-studio.com Nullable reference types appeared in C# 3 years ago. By this time, they found their audience. But even those who work with this “beast” may not know all its capabilities. Let’s figure out how to work with these types more efficiently. Introduction Nullable reference types are designed to help…

Original: pvs-studio.com In 2022, the PVS-Studio developers wrote lots of articles where they described bugs found in open-source projects. Now it’s time to choose the most interesting ones. How was this top created? I looked through all C# articles published this year and inspected all the bugs described there. To make this top more diverse…

Original: pvs-studio.com New version of .NET enhanced the performance of the Min, Max, Average and Sum methods for arrays and lists. How much do you think their execution speed has increased? 2x or 5x? No, they got even faster. Let’s see how that was achieved. How has LINQ enhanced? LINQ (Language-Integrated Query) is a…

Christmas holidays are the most beloved and cherished ones all over the world. Gifts, decorations, family and friends all gathered together — these are the essentials of Christmas and New Year’s buzz. Our team was also caught up in this. In the eve of the Christmas holidays, we have prepared…

The title of an article should be catchy and hint at its contents. So, over time a user support specialist might collect questions to the users. One of them looks like this: “Why are you doing my job?” — but it is a rather rhetorical question. Actually, it’s quite obvious…

We collected some hot stories about programming errors for you to have a little fun and learn something new. Keep reading to find out how one programmer broke the Internet by deleting a tiny piece of code and see other not-so-obvious errors. Original: pvs-studio.com “Error” is something that can scare…

Original: pvs-studio.com Regular expressions come in handy when you need to search for and replace text. However, in some cases, they may cause the system to slow down or even make vulnerable to ReDoS attacks. Introduction ReDoS is a subtype of a DoS attack. The aim of a ReDoS attack is…

.NET 7 is now available, which means that we can enjoy all sorts of new features and enhancements. Let’s talk about the most interesting improvements: C# 11, containers, performance, GC, and so on. C# 11 We have already posted an article and described the novelties in C# 11. In that article, we…

Original: pvs-studio.com Here is an interesting story of how our team were looking for a bug in the PVS-Studio analyzer. Well, we make mistakes too. However, we are ready to roll up our sleeves and dive deep into the rabbit hole. A small backstory A colleague of ours has already talked about our…