There are many topics in the C language that often confuse developers but the use of the static keyword seems to be one of the more common. One of the points of confusion is how static affects ...

Does it ever make sense to declare a variable in C or C++ as both volatile (in other words, “ever-changing”) and const (“read-only”)? If so, why? And how should you combine volatile and const properly ...

As far as I know regarding the <pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">typedef</pre> keyword in C and C++, it's just used to rename datatypes, right? That's all I've ever ...

How to take advantage of the volatile keyword in C# to ensure that concurrent threads get the latest value of an object The optimization techniques used by the JIT (just-in-time) compiler in the ...

The yield keyword performs custom and stateful iteration and returns each element of a collection one at a time sans the need of creating temporary collections The yield keyword, first introduced in C ...

This is an Insight article, written by a selected contributor as part of WTR's co-published content. Read more on Insight This chapter provides an overview of the relevant European jurisprudence, ...

The dynamic keyword and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) are major new features in C# 4 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. These features generated a lot of interest when announced -- along with a ...

The dynamic keyword brings exciting new features to C# 4. Find out how it works and why it simplifies a lot of your coding tasks, including some handy COM interop possibilities. The dynamic keyword ...