Shawn Farkas has made a list of various bloggers from the CLR, so you can know who the best personis to follow for various issues. The list is available here

We recently got asked this question by a customer: " In C#, how do I ensure that a string entered into a text box is of the format: letter,number,letter,number,letter,number ?" The first answer seems to be pretty straightforward: use RegEx! Regular Expressions...

Once again, we continue to have robust, passionate discussions around the breaking change bar for fixes. The BCL team itself recently had a heated discussion between the Program Manager, Tester, and Developer, surrounding a particular change that I thought...

So I thought I would share some code I wrote today, to help me formulate a design guideline. I'm trying to define what we should do for 'min' and 'max' as a rule for design guidelines: should it be Min and Max? Or Minimum and Maximum? The first question...

We get a lot of people pointing out a fundamental design issue with String.Split: when you do your split, it actually splits at every item found, even if the items are contiguous. Now this actually is useful for some scenarios. For example, imagine you...

I saw this question recently: " Double d = (( IConvertible ) o).ToDouble( System.Threading. Thread .CurrentThread.CurrentCulture) ; Is this the best way (speed, correctness) to convert a boxed instance of one primitive types below to a double?" I thought...

Well, actually, it doesn't hang. It just takes a really really long time, and you haven't waited long enough for it to finish. One of the pitfalls with regular expression is that you can write expressions which don't perform very well. In particular,...