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Immutability and ReadOnlyCollection<T>

I am a huge fan of read only/immutable collections and data. Hopefully the increased exposure through the blogosphere alerted users to the advantages of this type of programming for the appropriate scenarios. I wanted to discuss ReadOnlyCollection<T> Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:42 AM by Jared Parsons | 1 Comments

Design Guidelines: Provide type inference friendly Create function for generic objects

Really this guideline is a bit longer but putting it all in a blog title seemed a bit too much.  The full guideline should read: "If a generic class constructor arguments contain types of all generic parameters, provide a static method named Read More...

Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 8:24 AM by Jared Parsons | 3 Comments

Reference values in C++

Reference values are a powerful feature of C++ but I find they have one significant detractor. A developer can not look at an API call and determine if a parameter is being passed by reference or value (VB has the same problem). IMHO this is one item Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:24 AM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

API Problems: CComObject::CreateInstance

CComObject::CreateInstance is a light weight method for creating instances of COM objects in your code. Unfortunately the design of the API makes it easy to introduce subtle errors into your code. The two problems are it encourages manually ref counting Read More...

Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 7:38 PM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments