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A breaking change in .NET argument exception message formatting
A quick reference post about an interesting change in the way .NET formats argument exception messages. This tripped me up when debugging a test that was failing on .NET Core / 6.0 whereas it had been passing forever and still passes on .NET Framework / 4.7. The test was expecting a specific error message. Because .NET Core apparently has changed the format string used for argument exception messages, that expectation was broken.