Last time I noted that any two usages of "the same" anonymous type within an assembly actually unify to be the same type. By "the same" we mean that the two anonymous types have the same property names and types, and that they appear in the same order...

Back in my last post of 2010 I said that I would do an example of anonymous types unifying within an assembly "in the new year". I meant 2011, but here we are "in the new year" again, so, no time like the present. The C# specification guarantees you that...

If you ask a dozen C# developers what a "local variable" is, you might get a dozen different answers. A common answer is of course that a local is "a storage location on the stack". But that is describing a local in terms of its implementation details;...

Here's an inconvenient truth: just about every "public surface area" change you make to your code is a potential breaking change. First off, I should clarify what I mean by a "breaking change" for the purposes of this article. If you provide a component...

Happy New Year all! It has just been brought to my attention that this blog and the Programmer Ryan Gosling photo blog share at least one reader: I admit it, I LOL'd. In the interests of total accuracy I'd like to point out that the first entry on the...