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One Long Strange Trip: Visual Studio Magazine and Me

The January Visual Studio Magazine marks the first time the C# Corner is written by Patrick Steele . I’ve bowed out after a long run with the magazine and its predecessors. The most important part is that...

Posted 29 January 2010 02:26 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Effective C#, SRT Solutions, Me, C#, .NET General, C# General, DevCenterPosts

Slides and Demos from my 2010 CodeMash talk

As promised, here are the slides and demos from my CodeMash Talk:  Going Dynamic in C#. Slides . Demos . Please note that the demos are compatible with VS2010 Beta 2. They will not load (or run) on...

Posted 18 January 2010 11:59 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Effective C#, User Groups, C#, C# General

Effective C#, 2nd Edition: What Content got dropped, and why?

The 2nd edition of Effective C# is now available on Rough Cuts . With that, I’ve started to get questions via email about how I decided which items to add, and which items to drop. It should be clear from...

Posted 04 December 2009 11:38 AM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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When Cast<T> doesn’t Cast to T

A friend asked me about some issues he was having using Enumerable.Cast<T>(). In his mind, it just wasn’t working. Like so many problems, it was working correctly, just not the way he expected. It...

Posted 22 July 2009 11:04 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Effective C#, LINQ, C#, .NET General, DevCenterPosts

Query Language or Method calls: A matter of taste

My last post (which was too long ago), generated question on whether I prefer the query language or the method notation for LINQ queries. The answer is ‘yes’.  Jon Skeet mentioned this as well last...

Posted 11 May 2009 01:54 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Effective C#, C#, C# General, DevCenterPosts

Another item from More Effective C# Posted on InformIT

Today, the fine folks at InformIT posted another item from More Effective C# for you to learn more about the style and the content from the book: Item 29: Enhance Constructed Generic Types with Extension...

Posted 28 October 2008 02:06 AM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Effective C#, LINQ, Me, C#, C# General

Extension Methods and Null Arguments

A little while ago, I did a DNR TV on C# 3.0 . During that, I talked about preserving null semantics when  you write extension methods.  I made the point that you should never test if the first...

Posted 26 October 2008 01:00 PM by wwagner | 4 comment(s)

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Getting ready for PDC

Well, today is being spent getting everything ready for traveling to Los Angeles for the PDC conference. Like most people without a blue badge, I’m going as an attendee to learn as much as I can about...

Posted 24 October 2008 02:37 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Effective C#, Me, C#, upcoming attractions

Excerpts of “More Effective C#” posted on InformIT

Three different items from More Effective C# have been posted publicly on the InformIT site: Item 36:  Understand how Query Expressions Map to Method Calls . Linq is built on two concepts: A query...

Posted 22 October 2008 08:58 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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More Effective C# available now

Today is the official release date for More Effective C# . Writing a book may seem to be a solitary activity, but nothing could be further from the truth. I have been lucky enough to work with fantastic...

Posted 17 October 2008 05:00 PM by wwagner | 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Effective C#, LINQ, Me, C#, books, C# General

Properties vs. Methods

Not so much a code as what you might call 'guidelines' Recently, one of the readers of Effective C# asked me some questions about Properties vs. Get and Set methods. It turned into a rather interesting...

Posted 04 September 2006 06:04 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Effective C#, C#

There are some things money can't buy

For everything else.... Oh, never mind Cost of PDC: $1500 Hotel (5 nights): $950 airfare: $375 Having the C# Product unit manager recommend your own book to you.... Priceless . <short backstory>...

Posted 21 September 2005 05:37 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Effective C#, C#

A C# Performance Question

A reader asks about a variation of loop variable hoisting Question on Item 11. Regarding your examples of loops, where would the following end up in efficiency? // Loop 4: ( for ( int index = 0, len =...

Posted 18 May 2005 02:37 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Effective C#, C#