Until recently I thought this was a well-known feature. After demonstrating it a few times, I found out it wasn’t. A long time ago, in an cubicle far, far away, someone created the .Net Framework. To cut a long story short, they simultaneously produced guidelines for creating Exception classes, which you should always use or [...]

One of the biggest questions with Anonymous Types is “can I pass them around?” If not, why not? Can you do something like this, for example: var GetAnonymousValue() { return new { Name = “Richard Bushnell” }; } void Main() { var value = GetAnonymousValue(); var name = value.Name;} The answer is simple: no, you [...]

Name Use Automatic Property Summary You have a property in a class which just wraps a field of the same type, and simply returns or sets that field. private string _field1; public string Field1 { get { return _field1; } set { _field1 = value; } } Becomes: public string Field1 { get; set; } [...]

I really like Scott Hanselmann’s idea to write an indefinite series of posts about reading code to be a better developer. I’m going to copy his idea, and write a series of my own. Since its first version, C# has evolved from being a Java clone to something much more dynamic. I’ve noticed that developers [...]