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A .NET 3.5 solution ended up with this warning when compiling with msbuild. Sometimes NDepend might help out but in this case it didn't give any further details. Like Bob I ended up having to resort to opening each assembly in ILDASM until I found the one that was referencing an older version of the dependant assembly. I did try using MSBUILD from VS 2010 Beta 2 (as the Connect article indicated this was fixed in the next version of the CLR) but that didn't provide any more detail either (maybe fixed post Beta 2) Is there a better (more automated) approach? AMissico Change the "MSBuild project

A static field in a generic class will have a separate value for each combination of generic parameters. It can therefore be used as a Dictionary<Type, whatever > Is this better or worse than a static Dictionary<Type, whatever >? In other words, which of these implementations is more efficient? public static class MethodGen<TParam> { public static readonly Action<TParam> Method = CreateMethod(); static Action<TParam> CreateMethod() { /*...*/ } } Or, public static class MethodGen { static readonly Dictionary<Type, Delegate> methods = new Dictionary<Type, Delegate>(); public static Action<T>

I installed .NET 4.5 Developer preview from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27541 , which 'replaces' .NET 4.0 version. However, the old way to detect the .NET framework version seems to return 4.0 (more precisely 4.0.30319.17020 on my PC), instead of 4.5 (sure probably for backward compatibility, or?): using System; namespace ConsoleApplication { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var version = Environment.Version; Console.WriteLine(version.ToString()); Console.ReadKey(); } } } How do I detect that my code is really executed by .NET 4.5?

This question already has an answer here: What does the caret (‘^’) mean in C++/CLI? 7 answers I was reading Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2008 and many of its CLR examples have this definition for main: int main(array<System::String ^> ^args) I went back, page by page, to the beginning of the book to find the first such instance with an explanation what it really means, but couldn't find one. Obviously it means the same as the standard int main(int argc, char *argv[]) , but I'd like to know when and why that ^ is really used, and why it even exists (does it do something that pointers *