Control the overflow-checking context. In a checked context, overflow causes an exception to be thrown. In an unchecked context, the result is truncated.

Use the C# throw statement to signal an occurrence of an exception. Use the C# try statements to catch and process exceptions occurred in a block of code.

A static constructor in C# initializes static data or performs an action done only once. It runs before the first instance is created or static members are referenced.

Creates a task that will complete when all of the supplied tasks have completed.

I’ve been asked a few times recently various questions about ExecutionContext and SynchronizationContext, for example what the differences are between them, what it means to “flow” them, and how they relate to the new async/await keywords in C# and Visual…

Learn about versioning for base and derived classes in C#, and how to specify whether a method is intended to override or hide an inherited method.

Learn about the built-in C# floating-point types: float, double, and decimal

Represents a collection of keys and values.

Represents a read-only collection of elements that can be accessed by index.

Defines a generalized method that a value type or class implements to create a type-specific method for determining equality of instances.

Explore lazy initialization in .NET, a performance improvement that means an object creation is deferred until the object is first used.