Mar 8, 2017 · User kokos answered the wonderful Hidden Features of C# question by mentioning the using keyword. Can you elaborate on that? What are the uses of using?

By using a joystick or a pointing device, an on-screen keyboard allows people with mobility impairments to type data. The second sentence states that the on-screen keyboard is the one that uses the …

Updating the using keyword was specifically for templates, and (as was pointed out in the accepted answer) when you are working with non-templates using and typedef are mechanically identical, so …

With could work, but it sometimes connotes along with, as in with a companion, which is not the case. Using is the best bet, since that connotes using a tool, which is what we want. Also, do exploration is …

Yes Yes. Either way, when the using block is exited (either by successful completion or by error) it is closed. Although I think it would be better to organize like this because it's a lot easier to see what is …

Not using by means that the technology used is incidental, and the focus is on the approach being shown to be feasible. Without more context it's impossible to say what the intended import of the …

The problem with putting using namespace in the header files of your classes is that it forces anyone who wants to use your classes (by including your header files) to also be 'using' (i.e. seeing …

Oct 21, 2010 · I had been using cocaine. Meaning, with a reference point in the past, starting a time before then up to the reference point, I was habitually using cocaine up to and including that point. …

Jul 29, 2015 · From MSDN, using Statement (C# Reference) The using statement ensures that Dispose is called even if an exception occurs while you are calling methods on the object. You can achieve …

Dec 26, 2012 · Are there rules of usage when using the ampersand "&" instead of "and"? Are they completely interchangeable? The ampersand seems more casual, but I'm not sure.