I spend most of my days designing and writing software. I actually get paid to do this. That makes me a professional. And as a professional my job as a developer is evaluated at least once per year in what is affectionately known as an annual performance...

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I have always been interested in reading great code from others because -- like Scott Hanselman -- I strongly believe that reading other people's code is the most effective way of becoming a better developer. It's a bit unfortunate then that our [development...

I am strongly in favor of automatic properties. They make code more readable and more concise. And that's often no easy task. However, I have seen a lot of people get tripped up by automatic properties because of the restriction that you must implement...

As of C# 3.0, a controversial yet exceptionally convenient feature known as extension methods have been added. The gist of the feature is to allow developer's the ability to syntactically extend any object. As with any language feature, it can be readily misused or abused. However, that has never stopped us from accepting new constructs in order to make code clearer and more concise....

The Internet is not a medium people believe they ought to read. They "browse" the Internet with the same level of commitment one would peruse the stack of outdated magazine's at the doctor's office. Yet countless people are sharing their thoughts and...