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Not that I'm much of a comp-sci guy but, I do like my language esoterica... earlier I posted about repeating structures in C# and it got me thinking about other language features - many of which are shared between VB and C# such as short-circuit evaluation and such. One language feature which I thought was pretty cool that C# didn't implement was switch-case fall-through. I'll bet that was a tough one to leave out! Here's an example of using fall-through behaviour to convert a number of Days, Hours, Minutes, or Seconds toMilliseconds:

While reading through some Rotor source I was reminded of the wonderful C# syntax for looping constructs, some of which included:

When I got home tonight my new book had arrived - hoping to have much of it “parsed” before heading to Redmond early next month:

Recently Justin Rogers got me enthusiastic about Rotor source code and today I see that Joel has uploaded a list of places where Rotor is discussed:

Today while writing a javascript version of a parser I was trying to work out how to implement a goto statement so that I could break out of an outer loop from an inner loop. You can either break or continue a labelled statement. The following snippet breaks a labelled statement.

Krzysztof Cwalina is a BCL team member who has just started blog'ging.  His first post is an update to the design guidelines for Generics - a really useful document.

After a comment which was left by Justin Rogers on a recent post of mine I decided to do a bit more testing to confirm the behaviour of String::Split. The documentation has this to say about it:

I lost track of the whereabouts of this document for a while: Coding Techniques and Programming Practices