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Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:02 AM

Why Can’t Extension methods on Value Type be curried

This is a followup to an post Extension Methods and Curried delegates . I have been recently asked if why Error CS1113: “Extension methods ' Name ' defined on value type ' typename ' cannot be used to create delegates” was added and what does it mean
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:58 AM

Extension methods Interoperability between languages

Extension methods written in C# can be imported and called with Extension method semantics in VB and vice versa. This is possible since me decorate the assemblies , types and methods in the same manner. Using the Attribute [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Method
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:45 AM

Conversion rules for Instance parameters and their impact

Overview: Instance parameter is the first parameter of an extension method and has the " this " parameter modifier. I discuss special conversion rules for them and some of the things that users of extension methods might encounter. Consider the code bellow
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 4:19 PM

Extension methods and Curried Delegates

Delegates Since Extension methods behave like instance method it makes sense that we should be able to create delegates that would accept the instance method signature, to this end we have included Adding an Extension Methods to delegate invocation List
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:51 PM

Extension method Binding and Error reporting

Overview: Extension methods are static methods that are bound with instance semantics. In this article i will give a brief overview of the various steps involved in binding a extension methods. Finally this will prepare the way to discuss the error reporting
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:50 PM

Extension methods in C#

Overview Extension methods are a new feature for C# 3.0 and I had the opportunity to implement them in the Compiler. These methods can then be called with instance syntax on any object that is convertible(see convertibility section for details) to the
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