C# for loop and post increment

I'm having a hard time understanding why the following loop prints 0 on each iteration. 

for (int i = 0, j = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    Console.WriteLine(j += j++);
}

Shouldn't the value of j increase after each iteration? If not can you please explain?

After positive feed back from @Jon Skeet I stepped through the disassembly of the statement and was able how the code was behaving at a low level. I have added the disassembly with my comments.

Thanks!!!

    54:                 Console.WriteLine(j += j++);
0000004f  mov         eax,dword ptr [ebp-40h]   /* [ebp-40h] == 0 move to eax */
00000052  mov         dword ptr [ebp-48h],eax   /* eax == 0 move to [ebp-48h] */
00000055  mov         eax,dword ptr [ebp-40h]   /* [ebp-40h] move to eax == 0 */
00000058  mov         dword ptr [ebp-4Ch],eax   /* eax move to [ebp-4Ch] == 0 */
0000005b  inc         dword ptr [ebp-40h]       /* increment [ebp-40h]== 1*/
0000005e  mov         eax,dword ptr [ebp-48h]   /* [ebp-48h] move to eax == 0 */
00000061  add         eax,dword ptr [ebp-4Ch]   /* (eax == 0 + [ebp-4Ch]) eax == 0 */
00000064  mov         dword ptr [ebp-40h],eax   /* eax == 0 move to [ebp-40h] */
00000067  mov         ecx,dword ptr [ebp-40h]   /* [ebp-40h] move to ecx == 0 */
0000006a  call        71DF1E00                  /* System.Console.WriteLine */
0000006f  nop 
    55:             }
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Shouldn't the value of j increase after each iteration?

Nope. Your loop body is somewhat equivalent to this:

int tmp1 = j; // Evaluate LHS of +=
int tmp2 = j; // Result of j++ is the value *before* the increment
j++;
j = tmp1 + tmp2; // This is j += j++, basically
Console.WriteLine(j);

So basically, you're doubling j on each iteration... but j is 0 to start with, so it stays as 0. If you want to just increment j on each iteration, just use j++... but ideally do it as a statement on its own, rather than using it as an expression within a bigger statement.

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