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 …

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 …

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 …

There seem to be different views on using 'using' with respect to the std namespace. Some say use ' using namespace std', other say don't but rather prefix std functions that are to be used …

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. …

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 …

Feb 19, 2021 · In a MySQL JOIN, what is the difference between ON and USING()? As far as I can tell, USING() is just more convenient syntax, whereas ON allows a little more flexibility …

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