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Answer: When you're the one who threw it. Starting with the CLR version 2.0, the policy for handling a StackOverflowException was changed. User code can no longer handle the exception[1]. Instead the CLR will simply terminate the process.
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A few days ago, I recklessly added a [Serialization] attribute to a few of my immutable collection types. I needed to pass data between AppDomain's and adding [Serialization] was the quick and dirty fix. Compiled, ran and I didn't think much
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Title pretty much says it all but what good is a rule without any explanation. The main issue here is that at the core, using statements and lambda expressions both alter variable lifetimes. Unfortunately they alter the lifetime in different directions.
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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>
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Both VB and C# have a feature of generic overload resolution that is fairly helpful and yet a source of gotchas. Lets say you have two methods with the same number of arguments. One method has arguments with generic types and the other does not. For Example:
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