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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 Methods If you have questions about the content, come by The Ann Arbor Computing Society (AACS) on...

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 the future of our industry and the platforms I use.  However, there is one known appointment on...

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 language and a translation from that query language to a set of methods.” Item 44: Prefer Storing Expression<>...

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 editors, technical editors, and community members as I have put this together. If you read the acknowledgements...

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...