June 2011 Entries
Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past little wonders posts can be found here. Today we’re going to look at an interesting Little Wonder that can be used to mitigate what could be considered a Little Pitfall. The Little Wonder we’ll be examining is the System.Nullable static class. No, not the System.Nullable<T> class, but a static ......
This week is a busy week for me. First of all I’m giving another presentation on a LINQ/Lambda primer for the rest of the developers in my company. Of Lambdas and LINQ View more presentations from BlackRabbitCoder Then this Saturday the 25th of June I’ll be reprising my Little Wonders presentation for the Kansas City Developers Camp. If you are in the area I highly recommend attending and seeing the other great presentations as well. Their link is here. Little Wonders View more presentations from ......
The .NET Base Class Library (BCL) has a wide array of collection classes at your disposal which make it easy to manage collections of objects. While it's great to have so many classes available, it can be daunting to choose the right collection to use for any given situation. As hard as it may be, choosing the right collection can be absolutely key to the performance and maintainability of your application! This post will look at breaking down any confusion between each collection and the situations ......
Re-posting my presentation on Automating Code Standards that I'm presenting to the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) .NET Users Group - CRINETA - tonight. For more details see their web site at: crineta.org The presentation can be found on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/B... Automating C# Coding Standards using StyleCop and FxCop View more presentations from BlackRabbitCoder Tweet Technorati Tags: C#, .NET, StyleCop, FxCop ......
Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past little wonders post can be found here. On this post I will finish examining the System.Linq methods in the static class Enumerable by examining two extension methods Count() and DefaultIfEmpty(), and one static method Empty(). The Empty() static method How many times have you had to return an empty collection ......