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  • Unsigned integral types - ushort, uint, and ulong

    If you've dug into the .NET documentation much, you've probably seen the framework has unsigned versions of the integral types we use all the time, and C# considers them built-in types with language keywords to easily use them--ushort, uint, and ulong. If you haven't, you may be unfamiliar with them--in 14 years of C# development, I could probably count on a hand or two the number of times I've seen them in production code.

  • Updating bound WPF control without tabbing out

    I've had an opportunity to do WPF development professionally (as opposed to hobby-tier) for the first time over the last year or so, & while the improvements over WinForms are staggering (and as a lifelong web developer, also familiar), there's plenty that's not intuitive.