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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

Have an IComparer<T> but need an IComparable<T>?

Previously we discussed the opposite problem.  This is a lesser but often more frustrating problem because there is no, AFAIK, built in solution for the BCL.  However it's problem that can be solved once and reused with a generic solution. IComparable<T> Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 8:20 AM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

Tuples Part 6: Comparing

Part 5 produced equality tests for Tuples. This section will add comparison support through the IComparable<T> interface. Implementing comparable is very similar to adding equality support. Once again there is a generic class available to make all Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:56 AM by Jared Parsons | 3 Comments