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 the default value for the type is. For some reason...

I've been struggling around the aggregation used in WCF's Binding object model, as implemented in the GetProperty<T> method (see relevant discussions with Nicholas Allen from the WCF team here and here ), and I'm struck by how the need for a flexible, late-bound way of extracting information...

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 be doing that, and the second was to suggest that...

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 be doing that, and the second was to suggest that...

I've been struggling around the aggregation used in WCF's Binding object model, as implemented in the GetProperty<T> method (see relevant discussions with Nicholas Allen from the WCF team here and here ), and I'm struck by how the need for a flexible, late-bound way of extracting information...

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 the default value for the type is. For some reason...

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, so I'll try to go over some common paths, using...