Paul Stovell says…

As many people know, LINQ to Objects is made possible via extension methods. A two-second simple example of the where enumerable might look like this:
public static IEnumerable<T> Where<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, Func<T, bool> predicate)
{
foreach (T sourceElement in source)
{
if (predicate(sourceElement))
[…]

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There’s a good thread on the ALT.NET mailing list about the use of extension methods over interface methods. Having used extension methods heavily in SyncLINQ, there’s something I wanted to highlight when it comes to choosing between regular methods and extension methods.
Combining extension methods with interfaces can be very powerful. The IEnumerable interface is […]

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Often when creating classes, we add a number of constructors to the class that are usually just there for convenience’s sake; that is, to make life easier for the developers using the class. Take the following code:
public class Contact
{
private string _firstName;
private string _lastName;
private […]

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Last week I delivered Readify’s Professional .NET training course to a company in North Ryde, Sydney. The group was made up of a range of experiences in VB6, Java, and InterSystems products. By the end of the week I was feeling pretty worn out, but I was rewarded with some nice review scores from the group: […]

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Chris Frazier writes: “okay, just to play devil’s advocate…>:) I think the asp.net cache framework fits very nicely for its purpose - what you propose seems like another abstraction on top of it, for the benefit of thinking *less* about what items you should cache to *optimize* code execution time? So, just throw everything possible […]

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