In the past I presented another possible use for the using keyword: as hints on LINQ . I’ve been giving some thought about this lately and refined my proposal. var q = from person in personCollection using MyEnumerableExtensions group person by person.LastName into g using new MyOtherComparer () orderby...

(This was pointed out to me by Frans Bouma and explained by Jon Skeet ) Imagine you have this set of classes: public class A { public virtual string P { get { return "A" ; } } } public class B : A { } public class C : B { public override string P { get { return "C" ; } } } And this class: public static...

Like I said before , this as been on the back of my mind for a while. A while back I introduced a way to get the MethodInfo of a method in a strongly typed way using LINQ , and that's how I'm going to make Reflective Mocks more Natural . Well, it's as easy as this: public static class MockExtender {...

Visual Studio uses Publicize to create accessors public for private members and types of a type. But when you try to set elements of a private array of elements of a private type, things get complicated. Imagine this hypothetic class to test: public static class MyClass { private static readonly MyInnerClass...

Today, my friend Nuno was writing some code to get the PropertyInfo s of a class implementation of an interface. Given this interface: public interface ISomeInterface { int IntProperty { get ; set ; } string StringProperty { get ; } void Method(); } and this class: public class SomeClass : ISomeInterface...

To finalize this series on object hydration, I’ll show some performance comparisons between the different methods of hydrating objects. For the purpose of this exercise, I’ll use this class: class SomeType { public int Id { get ; set ; } public string Name { get ; set ; } public DateTimeOffset CreationTime...