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?

The using statement is used to work with an object in C# that implements the IDisposable interface. The IDisposable interface has one public method called Dispose that is used to …

In other word, if you know that the initialization of a variable in using may throw a particular exception, I wrap it with try-catch. Similarly, if within using body something may happen, which …

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 …

Dec 27, 2013 · 182 In C++11, the using keyword when used for type alias is identical to typedef. 7.1.3.2 A typedef-name can also be introduced by an alias-declaration. The identifier following …

Oct 22, 2008 · But if you put the using declaration inside a namespace it's limited to the scope of that namespace, so is generally OK (with the usual caveats on your particular needs and style).

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. …

Feb 19, 2021 · The USING clause is a shorthand that allows you to take advantage of the specific situation where both sides of the join use the same name for the joining column (s). It takes a …

Oct 29, 2019 · 46 Justin Lessard's answer explains the difference between using and await using, so I'll focus on which one to use. There are two cases: either the two methods Dispose / …

I have been running StyleCop over some C# code, and it keeps reporting that my using directives should be inside the namespace. Is there a technical reason for putting the using directives inside