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While updating my VsVim editor extensions for Beta2 [1] I got hit by a change in the way F# exposed discriminated unions in metadata. My extension consists of a core F# component with a corresponding set of unit tests written in C#. It’s mostly
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One of the seldom used, and often unknown, features of VB extension methods is that the argument of the extension method (the first parameter) can be passed by reference. This gives extension methods the power to change the reference that was used
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One of the gotchas for Extension Methods is that it's legal to call them on Null References. This isn't really surprising when you think about the feature. Boiled down to a fundamental level, extension methods are just syntactic sugar for calling a static
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For a time I've been avoiding extension methods. Not because I'm opposed to using them but because of the 3.5 Framework. A lot of the tools I own are designed to be very light weight tools that only require the user to have 2.0 installed on their machine.
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