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Friday, December 19, 2008 7:00 AM

Moving a type from one assembly to another using TypeForwardedToAttribute

One of the problems that we’re facing today in the Framework, mainly stemming from the red bits/green bits design of .NET 3.5, is that certain ‘core’ types are located in the wrong assemblies. For example, the extremely useful ObservableCollection<T>...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 7:00 AM

"I can't believe Microsoft didn't make [Enter API Name Here] public"

Jeremy Miller takes a dig at the BCL team with his post, I love Ayende (and OSS) : From one of Ayende 's many OSS projects. /// This class actually already exists in the System.Core assembly...as an internal class. /// I can only speculate as to why...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:00 AM

Breaking changes to the String class

You may have already read Justin Van Patten's post about the upcoming breaking changes to the String class for .NET 4.0 . This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith , String. EndsWith , String. IndexOf and String. LastIndexOf methods...
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