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Friday, March 06, 2009 7:00 AM

You learn something new every day

I’ve been writing C# code since one of the early betas back in 2001, yet I’ve never run across the following: error CS1638: 'ToString_WithCache__ShouldReturnICompositionElementDisplayName' is a reserved identifier and cannot be used when ISO language...
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Monday, December 29, 2008 7:00 AM

Documenting ‘undocumented’ features

MMayerl asks over on the MSDN wiki , why we don’t document the undocumented C# keywords __makeref , __reftype , __ refvalue and __arglist ? Because that defeats of the purpose of them being undocumented. They are undocumented for a reason; so that...
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Monday, December 22, 2008 7:00 AM

Return an empty IEnumerable<T> from a yield iterator

This question came up the other day: How do I return an empty IEnumerable<T> from a method using the C# yield keyword? There are actually two ways of doing this. Both, admittedly, are not the most intuitive things in C#: yield break Do not return...
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