I got a question recently about where in the .NET framework the "special numbers" were defined. The questioner was actually asking about the Double.NaN , Double.PositiveInfinity , etc, special values for floating point numbers. Of course there are other...

Yes, it has happened again . This time, our fabulous C# Community Program Manager Charlie Calvert was good enough to put together a little half-hour-long video of me talking about the scenarios which justify changes to the type inference algorithm for...

Joel points out today that SQL injection vulnerabilities are common and bad, bad, bad. He does a good job of describing the attack but doesn't really talk about how to mitigate it. When I advise people on how to close security holes like this I always...