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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

A Discussion on Imperative vs. Declarative Programming

I received the following question (paraphrased) this week: “You are an advocate of converting imperative style programming into re-usable frameworks as you did in your November VS Magazine column. I agree...

Posted 10 November 2009 04:19 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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Lazy<T>: On Demand Construction in .NET 4.0

I love it when I find those small new bits of functionality in the .NET framework. It’s all the big items that get all the love at conferences and in magazines. Lazy<T> is one of those items...

Posted 30 September 2009 07:32 PM by wwagner | 11 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)

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Not so Hidden Gems in VS 2010

I’m just going to assume that all readers of my blog know that Visual Studio 2010 Beta one has been released . I’ve been running it almost exclusively since I downloaded and installed it. There’s a lot...

Posted 26 May 2009 05:25 PM by wwagner | 3 comment(s)

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Learning new languages with VSM

This month’s VSM has a pair of articles by me and Kathleen Dollard that were great fun to write, and I believe they’ll be useful to a wide audience. My regular C# corner column discusses what every VB...

Posted 01 December 2008 11:31 AM by wwagner | with no comments

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Euler Problem 10

Patrick posted his solution earlier this week. I figure it was time to add mine. Also, Octavio Hernandez pointed out in the comments to problem 8 that he had discussed similar code constructs in his blog...

Posted 31 August 2008 01:05 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

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Code from Lightning Talk: Compiler Tricks

My last Lightning Talk should how you can mix constructor calls and object initializers. It's a useful technique that can keep you from writing too much code you don't need. To see what I mean...

Posted 30 August 2008 05:53 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

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Do I write software at home like I write at work?

Dave Donaldson asks " Do you write software at homer like you do at work? " Dave wonders if we use the same discipline writing software at home (for our own use) that we do at work. I think the...

Posted 19 March 2008 07:54 AM by wwagner | with no comments

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