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March 2007 - Posts

Friday, March 23, 2007 9:26 AM

All About Iterators

Design patterns have been all of the rage for a number of years now. We have design patterns for concurrency, user interfaces, data access, object creation, and so many other things. The seminal work on the topic is the Gang of Four 's book, Design Patterns
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:52 AM

Performance Engineering

Recently, many people have asked me about the performance of Linq. The questions have ranged from the broad, "How can I analyze the performance of code using Linq?", to the very specific, "Why is the performance of this code sample not what I expected?"
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Friday, March 09, 2007 11:06 AM

Extending the World

When people think of C# 3.0 and Linq, they commonly think of queries and databases. The phenomenal work of the Linq to SQL guys provides ample reason to think of it this way; nevertheless, C# 3.0 and Linq are really much much more. I have discussed a
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:44 AM

Immutability, Purity, and Referential Transparency

How often do you write code that just works? It seems to happen so rarely that I find myself suspicious if code does just work. When was the last time that you wrote a non-trivial program that had no compile errors on the first try and then ran fine as
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