.Net Smoothie

I was recently reading Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide, Second Edition, and came across this piece of example Ruby code:
[1,3,5,7].inject(0) {|sum, element| sum+element} -> 16 [1,3,5,7].inject(1) {|product, element| product*element} -> 105

Inject is a method which acts on an array by aggregating or accumulating the values within that array. It […]

Until recently I thought this was a well-known feature. After demonstrating it a few times, I found out it wasn’t.
A long time ago, in an cubicle far, far away, someone created the .Net Framework. To cut a long story short, they simultaneously produced guidelines for creating Exception classes, which you should always use or face […]

Name
Use Automatic Property
Summary
You have a property in a class which just wraps a field of the same type, and simply returns or sets that field.
private string _field1;
public string Field1
{
get { return _field1; }
set { _field1 = value; }
}
Becomes:
public string Field1 { get; set; }
C# Version
3.0
Motivation
Encapsulation is quite possibly the key principle […]

I really like Scott Hanselmann’s idea to write an indefinite series of posts about reading code to be a better developer. I’m going to copy his idea, and write a series of my own.
Since its first version, C# has evolved from being a Java clone to something much more dynamic. I’ve noticed that developers often […]