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How difficult can it be to overload operator ==?
Well apparently very difficult! Today, I read article after article on blogs that suggested weird and wonderful ways of overloading the operator == in C#. Almost all of those were incorrect! So I set myself a challenge to put the record straight: Before Read More...
Lambda Expressions in C#
Before being able to talk about Lambda expressions, I need to wet your appetite by touching on the difference between Expressions and Statements: i = j; while (a) f(b); The above listing is an illustration of 2 statements. As you can see evaluation order Read More...
Lazy evaluation in C#
What is lazy evaluation? If you ask a functional programming enthusiast, you will probably get a reply similar to the one below: “Oh well, allow me to enlighten you: - In lazy evaluation, computation terminates whenever any reduction order terminates. Read More...
Extension methods in C# 3.0
You can think of extension methods as the ability to add instance methods to already existing types. Having said that, I would immediately also tell you that it is just an illusion. You are not actually adding a method to an existing type. It is just Read More...
Local variable type inference in C# 3.0
In C# 1.0 type declaration was very simple: - Specify the type name (if an array then append [] to the end of the type) - Follow by a local variable name Here are some examples of this: int i = 23; double [] ds = new double [] { 1.0, 2.0 }; In C# 2.0 Read More...
Non-CLS Exceptions
Many developers are not aware that according to CLR it is perfectly OK to throw exceptions which are NOT derived from System. Exception : Exceptions such as DateTime, Int64 and String. Although languages such as C# do not allows programmers to throw these Read More...
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