Brad Abrams

Without compiling or running this code, can you tell if Malicious will be able to “steal” the password set in an instance of Child? Why or why not? public class Base { protected String _password; } public class Child : Base { public Child ( string password...

By now you have heard the news : WinFX will be shipping on XP, WS03 in order to make both Longhorn and WinFX ship with higher quality and sooner. If you haven’t already, check out JimAll’s Channel9 interview . Longhorn will contain core-OS level features...

Nikhil fires up the age old debate again… Data-binding to public fields... yes or no?

Well, I guess I will not purse my career as a radio game show host. Seems my quiz was not that hard. As most of you said, you change the class to a value type (class => struct). Ah, but the real fun is in the “why”. Richard says, the .cctor emitted...

Boy, it has been a while sense I did one of these… but, never the less, continuing in the series on sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 here are some of the annotations on the System.AttributeUsageAttribute...

BrianGru and Ahmed do a great job… check them out if you are doing anything with the Resource Manager…. Ahmed does a nice, simple demo and Grunk explains the black-art of culture fallback. And even Perf Tips! Using Managed Resources Enjoy!

The program below outputs “in .cctor” when run. In the spirit of NPR’s Says You , make a 6 character change to only line 10 that will allow the program to continue to compile without warnings or errors but when run result in no output. Any of course,...

I will be coming to 2004 Borland Conference in San Jose , CA to talk about the cool new stuff in CLR v2.0. I will be in town for a long weekend to see the sights (any suggestions?). Then hanging out at the conference on 9/14 and 9/15. Anyone else going...

I have certainly been accused of being an incredible nit-picker when it comes to API designs, but the little a esthetic things do add up. For example consider the overload of the Equals method from System.Uri : public override bool Equals(object comparand...

Lots of good comments on my little quiz , seems it was too easy, everyone got it right! The first sample (in C# or VB) will print “17”. To see why, check out the ILDASM for the .cctor (which, BTW, is identical in VB and C#): IL_0000: ldc.i4.s 42 IL_0002...

I was blown away last year at the PDC by the number of folks that cared about hosting the CLR in their applications. With Whidbey the story gets even more rich. Dino , the QA guy for CLR hosting, is one of the few that knows how it really works. Today...

This is tomorrow... Webcast: What's New in the CLR 2.0. See you there! Just an announcement all: I'm giving a WebCast tomorrow on MSDN, on the topic of 'What's New In The CLR, 2.0'. This cast is similar to presentations I have given at both PDC and TechEd...

Google wasn’t much help to me finding these docs, but Frank was… I thought I’d share the link with you: .NET Framework 2.0 Reference Docs .

Clearly this code should fail a code review but what would calling PrintValue() display ? public class Foo { public static int Value = 42; static Foo () { Value = 17; } public static void PrintValue () { Console .WriteLine(Value); } } Same, question,...

Grunk , a dev on the BCL team , writes the kind of blog entry I love. He is sharing out of his own personal experiences in hopes it saves you time. Google hint: StreamWriter missing data

As you might guess from my last few posts , I have been doing some thinking about virtual members. Here are the updated guidelines. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. As always, you can check out the base design guidelines and my...

I am having a little trouble with .Text letting me “approve” comments… I am told the team is working on it. Never fear the comments are not lost, worst case I have them in email… I seem to have managed to turn moderation off (don’t tell the spammers)...

OK, after the last post I expect many people will nail this, so why don’t you show it your friends that don’t read my blog and see if they pass ;-) Create a new instance of Derived, drop the reference, wait for the GC to collect it, and for any finalizers...

Well, glad to see many of you got it right, I think FxCop is doing its job! Google helped me find a couple of posts on this already out there: http://weblogs.asp.net/trichards/archive/2003/06/20/9026.aspx http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/mlevison/archive...

Under what circumstance will the following code print: “ value != 42, what is wrong?” I tested this quiz out on Lutz , his first question was “does it use reflection”… typical from the reflector guy ;-) Anyway, nope...

I know, I know, I am an incredible nit picker, but it gives me the willies to see the hard-coded string “\n” used for newline. It works and there is no real “correctness” argument to be made here, but I just don’t like it. Here are my reasons: 1. Not...

A while back I posted a little bit about the one implication of call vs. callvirt and the other day I ran into another one that I thought I would share. This one is part of class of issues where C# or VB developers assume that if their language can’t...

I really hate comment spammers, they really ruin a great forum for the rest of us. I am glad to see that Scott has just armed us with some new weapons to help out. I turned on the comment moderation to test it out and see how it goes. I admit it is a...

I noticed that Peter Golde got the first source drop of the PowerCollections posted… Peter is just starting this project, so there is plenty of room for your feedback. In an unrelated note, Peter Sestoft and co just posted a very complete...

Continuing in the series on sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 here are some of the annotations on the System.Attribute class. Brad Abrams The ability to extend the metadata format...