Changed and rewritten items: Effective C# 2nd edition
In my last post, I wrote about the new items in the second edition of Effective C#, and those items that were removed to make room for the new items. Now, let’s discuss what happened to the items that...
View ArticleSlides and Demos from my 2010 CodeMash talk
As promised, here are the slides and demos from my CodeMash Talk: Going Dynamic in C#. Slides. Demos. Please note that the demos are compatible with VS2010 Beta 2. They will not load (or run) on...
View ArticleOne Long Strange Trip: Visual Studio Magazine and Me
The January Visual Studio Magazine marks the first time the C# Corner is written by Patrick Steele. I’ve bowed out after a long run with the magazine and its predecessors. The most important part is...
View ArticleWhy no Finalizer example in Effective C# 2nd Edition?
I received this feedback on the Safari site about an earlier draft of the 2nd Edition of Effective C#: Text says: “You’ll notice that neither MyResourceHog nor DerivedResourceHog contain a finalizer....
View ArticleWrite Contracts to minimize throwing exceptions
I received a great question that relates to using exceptions to indicate contract failures. I thought it would be of general interest, so I am sharing the answer and discussion here: I am reading your...
View ArticleSometimes tools can be overly pedantic
I received a mail from a reader of Effective C# asking about a possible error in one of my samples. He pointed out that my example for the Dispose pattern (Item 17) triggers an FX Cop (MS Code...
View ArticleNested Using Statements: A Belt and Suspenders kind of thing
A friend sent me the following question last week: WIth the following code: using(StringReader sr = new StringReader(someXmlString)){ using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(sr)) { // Do Something....
View ArticleSRT Solutions Trains LLamasoft Software Developers on C#
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – MAY 30, 2012 – ANN ARBOR, MICH. — SRT Solutions, a software development, research and training company, recently began work with LLamasoft, a global leader in supply chain...
View ArticleReader Question: Member Initializers vs. Constructors
I received a very interesting question from a reader earlier this week: I have a question for you about Item 12 in Effective C# (2nd edition), "Prefer Member Initializers to Assignment Statements"....
View ArticleEffective Writing guidelines from Scott Meyers
I try not to write posts that are simply links to other posts, but I had to make an exception for this. I was quite happy to see Scott Meyer’s post on writing an effective effective book earlier this...
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