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The Action Delegate(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrelljeremyjarrell(2685) 5 years, 2 months ago

Did you know that by using the Action delegate we can define a single operation which will automatically be applied to every member of an array? This is a great way to make your code cleaner and more elegant, read more...

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The Predicate object(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrelljeremyjarrell(2685) 5 years, 2 months ago

Did you know that you can use the predicate object to significantly reduce the amount of code that you write? You can also use it to make the code that you do have to write incredibly more elegant. Here's how! read more...

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Finding the name of your calling method(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrelljeremyjarrell(2685) 5 years, 2 months ago

Here's an easy way to find out the name of the method who called you, or the method who called that one, or the method who called that one.... read more...

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The IDE does NOT make the developer(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrelljeremyjarrell(2685) 5 years, 3 months ago

Just a brief comparison of the highs and lows of both SharpDevelop and Visual Studio as well as a discussion of why and why not the quality of your IDE should even matter to a developer. read more...

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Only iterating over the objects you want in a foreach loop(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrelljeremyjarrell(2685) 5 years, 3 months ago

Have you ever had a collection made of several types which all derive from the same base class? How many times have you needed to iterate the whole collection and check each element to make sure its the type that you want to work with? Here's how to do you type checking completely inline inside of the foreach loop so you only get the objects you want. read more...

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Turn on 'all exceptions' and watch the fireworks fly(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrelljeremyjarrell(2685) 5 years, 3 months ago

Most developers run happily along only breaking when an exception in uncaught. Did you know that you can stop and look and every single exception that's thrown? If you do you might be amazed at what'g going on deep inside of your app. read more...

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Fun with Breakpoints(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrelljeremyjarrell(2685) 5 years, 3 months ago

Some cool things that you can tell Visual Studio to do with breakpoints in order to optimize your debuggging. You can only hit them exactly when you want to, exactly when the conditions are right, as well as automatically do some really cool stuff when you do hit them! read more...

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Verifying calling objects(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrelljeremyjarrell(2685) 5 years, 3 months ago

A simple trick to verify that the people calling your methods are exactly who you think they are. read more...

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