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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...

Peter is always thorough. Peter N. Roth reviewed "C# Precisely", and "Effective C#" in the latest issue of C++ Users Journal. You can read the full review here: http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=9897/cuj0510book/ I'll only add one point: Peter rightly complains about numerous combined...

What comes next? One of the comments on an earlier entry ( http://www.srtsolutions.com/blogs/billwagner/2005/06/21/id93158.aspx ) asks if I'm going to write an updated version of Effective C# for version 2.0. I'm not certain, for two reasons. First of all, my goal with the content in Effective...

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...

On immutable structs, structs, and classes I received the following question that relates to Item 7 in Effective C#. It’s not strictly an errata, so I thought I would post it here for general discussion: In Item 7, you recommend the use of immutable structs. I am puzzled by why you would recommend...

A very thorough review of Effective C# Jim Holmes, who runs the Dayton Ohio .NET User group posted a very thorough review of Effective C# yesterday. (Thank you, Jim). The slashdot Review More than 150 comments, and growing Jim's follow-up comments After seeing the response on SlashDot The Dayton...

There's no hidden meaning, really. A friend asked me why there is a violin on the cover of Effective C# instead of any other instrument. The logic was actually pretty simple. A musical instrument seemed logical for a C# book. At the time, four of the five members of my family played some instrument...

An Effective C# reader had a number of questions on Exceptions and Remoting Throwing Exceptions across appdomain boundaries is more complicated than it is in other situations. The full discussion It's in my Effective C# blog, because it centers on book items

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...