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Check out Bill Wagner’s latest appearance on DotNetRocks , Show #223 . For anyone who doesn’t know, Bill is my business partner and author of Effective C#, The C# Little Black Book, and various articles. I haven’t listened to his DNR podcast yet, but I plan to listen to it on the way...

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 conversation, so I'm posting it all here: The original Question: I'm writing because...

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> At PDC, a number of RD's were invited to spend some time with members of the C# team to discuss...

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 = foo.Length; index < len; index++) … This is how I used to do it in Java (I wonder if I didn’t...