When using an API you must take care to understand not only what it returns, but also for how long the data returned will be valid.  This is very important to consider because programs must make either be making decisions on valid and predictable...

People love to chat about how to conduct a C++ interview on newsgroups .  Eventually these topics will shift into a discussion about what questions a candidate must know in order for them to get a hire from a particular interview.  Unfortunately...

One argument I commonly hear against immutable collections is they are slow.  I’ve held the opposite belief for some time but shamefully had yet to look at actual numbers on the CLR.  Tonight I decided to change that by benchmarking one of my...