Browse by Tags
All Tags »
SoftDev (
RSS)
Dynamic resolution as well as named and optional arguments greatly improve the experience of interoperating with COM APIs such as Office Automation Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs) . But, in order to alleviate even more COM Interop development, a few...
The major feature of C# 4.0 is dynamic programming. Not just dynamic typing, but dynamic in broader sense, which means talking to anything that is not statically typed to be a .NET object. Dynamic Language Runtime The Dynamic Language Runtime ( DLR )...
As part of the co-evolution effort of C# and Visual Basic , C# 4.0 introduces Named and Optional Arguments . First of all, let’s clarify what are arguments and parameters : Method definition parameters are the input variables of the method. Method call...
C# 4.0 (and .NET 4.0) introduced covariance and contravariance to generic interfaces and delegates. But what is this variance thing? According to Wikipedia , in multilinear algebra and tensor analysis, covariance and contravariance describe how the quantitative...
On my last post , I introduced the PredicateEqualityComparer and a Distinct extension method that receives a predicate to internally create a PredicateEqualityComparer to filter elements. Using the predicate, greatly improves readability, conciseness...
Today I was writing a LINQ query and I needed to select distinct values based on a comparison criteria. Fortunately, LINQ’ s Distinct method allows an equality comparer to be supplied, but, unfortunately, sometimes, this means having to write custom equality...
I like to use both StyleCop and CodeIt.Right to validate my code – StyleCop because it’s free and CodeIt.Right because it’s really good. While StyleCop provides only validation, CodeIt.Righ provides both validation and correction of violations. Unfortunately...
The procedures to define document compatibility in Internet Explorer 8 are well documented here , but I’ve seem many developers and system administrators that are not aware of this. Although you can (and should) define the document compatibility your...
C# 4.0 introduces a new type: dynamic . dynamic is a static type that bypasses static type checking. This new type comes in very handy to work with: The new languages from the dynamic language runtime . HTML Document Object Model (DOM). COM objects. Duck...
PDF: Programming Windows Phone 7 Series XPS: Programming Windows Phone 7 Series Source code
More Posts
Next page »