… look this good you will not. But man, I tell you, the memory goes. In the July 1985 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction , Isaac Asimov wrote: Yesterday I sat down to write my 321st essay for Fantasy and Science Fiction . […]...

What is this a chart of? I'll post the answer tomorrow. UPDATE: Someone has already correctly deduced the answer. (And man, that was fast!) So don't read the comments if you don't want spoilers.

The generic delegate type Func<A, R> is defined as delegate R Func<A, R>(A arg) . That is, the argument type is to the left of return type in the declaration of the generic type parameters, but to the right of the return type when they are...

User : The typeof(T) operator in C# essentially means “compiler, generate some code that gives me an object at runtime which represents the type you associate with the name T”. It would be nice to have similar operators that could take names of, say,...

A number of people have asked me why there is no Microsoft-provided “ForEach” sequence operator extension method. The List<T> class has such a method already of course, but there’s no reason why such a method could not be created as an extension...

Back when I started this blog in 2003, one of the first topics I posted on was the difference between Null, Empty and Nothing in VBScript. An excerpt: Suppose you have a database of sales reports, and you ask the database " what was the total of...

Many programming languages, C# included, treat certain sequences of letters as “special”. Some sequences are so special that they cannot be used as identifiers. Let’s call those the “reserved keywords” and the remaining special sequences we’ll call the...

Suppose you’ve got a sequence of Foos and you want to project from that a sequences of Bars. That’s straightforward using LINQ: IEnumerable<Bars> bars = from foo in foos select MakeBar(foo); or, without the query sugar: IEnumerable<Bars>...

A number of people have asked me, in the wake of my earlier posting about value types being on the stack, why it is that value types go on the stack but reference types do not. The short answer is “because they can”. And since the stack is cheap , we...