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Monday, May 03, 2004 4:15 PM

.NET Immutability Tip #3: Protect your properties AND your methods.

A common immutability practice is to simply protect the property setter with an immutability flag. Take a simple class that has a single integer field for to back our property and a single boolean flag to mark it immutable. using System; public class...
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:48 PM

.NET Immutability Tip #2: Be careful of unprotected types in the executable.

I've seen this happen quite often. When developers create their immutable types, they assume the only view the user will ever have is of the type through some interface. Normally the interfaces are defined before-hand and included in some library that...
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Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:24 PM

.NET Immutability Tip #1: Nothing is immutable.

I figured I'd start with the obvious. You can never control a machine 100%, so there is always the opportunity that whatever systems of protection you have in place, they can be overcome. This same principle applies to security and cheating systems as...
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