One of the features Microsoft packed with C# 7.2 is Reference Semantics with Value Types. Though designed with the intention to improve performance by eliminating the need for copying (and thereby allocating memory) value types , I do have my reservations on the complexity it adds to readability of code for a programmer. Let's consider … Continue reading Reference Semantics and Code Readability
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Switching Context With Async
Whenever an await is encountered in the code, a context is captured, which is later used when the promise is completed and ready to continue. If the method is called by the UI thread, usually, the context could be UI context, unless the awaited method itself creates a new thread. This can be demonstrated in … Continue reading Switching Context With Async
Multicasting with Action
Func and Action are inherited from System.MulticastDelegate, which means that you could actually do multicasting with them and add multiple methods to the InvocationList. Let's check how we do it. Output of above code would be The same can be done with Func as well. How do we remove one Action , same syntax as … Continue reading Multicasting with Action
Regular Expression – Compiled vs Interpreted
Regular Expression gives the developer a clean and efficient method to parse strings. However, it comes at a cost - there is a inherent performance hit associated with regular expressions, especially if you are running some kind of long loops and parsing the string inside it. One way to tackle it is using compiled regular … Continue reading Regular Expression – Compiled vs Interpreted
Collection of Custom Configuration
Adding application configuration in app.config, especially under the appSetting key is something which every developer is used to. What if we need to add our own customer collection. For example, That's when we need to write up code to define these customized segments. We will begin with the basic element first, which in this case … Continue reading Collection of Custom Configuration
Serialize Deserialize NameValueCollection
Don't ask me why one cannot Serialize/Deserialize a NameValueCollection, but the workaround for the same is based on conversion to dictionary. I ended up writing extension methods to NameValueCollection for serializing and deserializing the collection.
Parse Sub-Folders which do not contain specified file extension.
An easier way to parse for folders, which do not contain files with a specified extension.
Rethrow Exception
CA2200 : Rethrow to preserve stack details. That's one recommendation that as a developer you might have seen when running Code Analysis on your solution. So what does it mean ? What does the guilty code looks like and what is the correct way to throw exceptions. Lets start with incorrect code first. Considering following … Continue reading Rethrow Exception
Customized Debugger Tooltip
Code-Execute-Debug-Code-Execute-Debug.. This seems to be never ending cycle for any developer. Considerable amount of time of this cycle is spend in Debug phase, wherein user steps through breakpoints and traverse the objects and their properties. Thankfully, Microsoft has ensured that primitive types always shows the value, instead of any less-meaningful information. But what happens when … Continue reading Customized Debugger Tooltip
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