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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

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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)

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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)

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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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