.NET 4.0’s game-changing feature? Maybe contracts…
Update: As Chris Nahr pointed out, there’s a blog post by Melitta Andersen of the BCL team explaining this in more detail. Obviously I’ve been looking at the proposed C# 4.0 features pretty carefully,...
View ArticleCopenhagen C# talk videos now up
The videos from my one day talk about C# in Copenhagen are now on the MSDN community site. There are eight sessions, varying between about 25 minutes and 50 minutes in length. I haven’t had time to...
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The Snippy Reflector add-in
Those of you who’ve read C# in Depth will know about Snippy – a little tool which makes it easy to build complete programs from small snippets of code. I’m delighted to say that reader Jason Haley has...
View ArticleRedesigning System.Object/java.lang.Object
I’ve had quite a few discussions with a colleague about some failures of Java and .NET. The issue we keep coming back to is the root of the inheritance tree. There’s no doubt in my mind that having a...
View ArticleValue types and parameterless constructors
There have been a couple of questions on StackOverflow about value types and parameterless constructors: Structure vs Class in C# Why can’t I define a default constructor for a struct in .NET I learned...
View ArticleYou don’t have to use query expressions to use LINQ
LINQ is clearly gaining a fair amount of traction, given the number of posts I see about it on Stack Overflow. However, I’ve noticed an interesting piece of coding style: a lot of developers are using...
View ArticleDesigning LINQ operators
I’ve started a small project (I’ll post a link when I’ve actually got something worthwhile to show) with some extra LINQ operators in – things which I think are missing from LINQ to Objects, basically....
View ArticleBenchmarking made easy
While I was answering a Stack Overflow question on the performance implications of using a for loop instead of a foreach loop (or vice versa) I promised to blog about the results – particularly as I...
View ArticleFor vs Foreach on arrays and lists
As promised earlier in the week, here are the results of benchmarking for and foreach. For each of int and double, I created an array and a List<T>, filled it with random data (the same for the...
View ArticleMigrating from Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 to beta 2 – solution file change...
Having installed Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 on my freshly-reinstalled netbook (now with Windows 7 and and SSD – yummy) I found that my solution file from Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 wasn’t recognised...
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