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Moq, Callbacks and Out parameters: a particularly tricky edge case
In my current project we’re using Moq as our mocking framework for unit testing. It’s a very nice package – very simple, very intuitive for someone who has his wrapped around basic mocking concepts, but tonight I ran into an annoying limitation that,...
Reflecting over an Event
A coworker (Hey, Evgeny!) came to me with a puzzler today. He has an object that exposes an event, and he wants to know whether he's already subscribed to that event. Two things immediately came to mind - the first was that he really shouldn't...
Crossing the line - Reflection and Reality
When we're working Reflection, we tend to think in different terms than we do when we're actually calling methods. There's an extra level of abstraction in everything we do. Translating between these levels of abstraction isn't always easy or intuitive...
Non-generic default values in C#? Why not?!
A relatively obscure new keyword in C# 2.0 is the default(T) keyword. It's shorthand for checking if the given generic parameter T is a value type or reference type. If it's a reference type, it returns null. Otherwise it returns 0/false/0.0 or whatever...
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