C# Brain Teaser #3

blogs.msdn.com — What will the following code output? When you think you know, copy the code into Foo.cs and run “csc Foo.cs” and then run “Foo.exe”. Did it output what you expected? The brain teaser is to come up with the correct explanation for why the program outputs what it does. read more...

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Silverlight: The First Rich Text Editor

published 7 months, 3 days ago, submitted by crpietschmann 7 months, 4 days ago

michaelsync.net — Many people are waiting for a way to type rich text. Even if I think that Microsoft will bring out their own one, nobody knows how long to wait for and which features are included. My RTE ships with various common features and an extensive documentation. Please note that the whole thing is still in BETA state and there are some weird bugs on XP and different ones on Vista. It seems as if they are not caused by my component at all, because Visual Studio would notify me. So wait for the final version of Silverlight 2, until you use this component in any production environment! It is of course possible that some things are still undocumented or documented ones will not behave as expected. Don’t hesitate to report such incoherencies. read more...

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Understanding when to use a Finalizer in your .NET class

blogs.msdn.com — Finalization and why it is bad read more...

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Extension Method Hack To Get Around NullReferenceException’s

published 7 months, 10 days ago, submitted by zigamorph 7 months, 10 days ago

coderjournal.com — Today I came across an interesting extension method pattern that I didn’t know how the runtime would react. Because I was calling a method from an object that was obviously null. Check it out it is pretty cool. read more...

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I might be an elitist, but you're a misanthrope

codebetter.com — Expresses some of the frustration that comes with a fragmented .NET community; our wobbly triangle of gurus, thought leaders, and the massive base of people who we've let down, in a way, by selling the idea that the tools should do all the work, and drag-and-dropped our colleagues into an expectation of laziness, or at least lulled them into a reluctance to learn new things, which is death to our whole community over the long-run. read more...

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Don’t Use Double.Nan

dev102.com — Comparison of a double with double.Nan (Not a Number) will always return false. If we want to check whether a specific double is... read more...

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On Using an Application Framework

ryanheaney.info — One of the things that .NET provides us is a great framework with immense amounts of code tucked away in nice little method calls that we can use. The problem is that one of every two .NET developers I meet has no idea what the .NET Framework actually offers them. What’s worse with some of these developers is that if you were to take away the framework they were using, they would be caught dead in the water. Frameworks are great, but you need to know what they’re actually doing to master them. read more...

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On ASP.NET’s New MVC Extensions

ryanheaney.info — Constraining routes to be lowercase only read more...

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