C#/.NET Little Wonders

I’m heads-down in final preparation mode for AU 2010 and so won’t post anything very detailed for the rest of the week, but I did just want to share a series of programming gems that I stumbled across the other day.

James Michael Hare has published a great series entitled “C#/.NET Little Wonders”:

• C#/.NET Five Little Wonders (part 1)
1. The Null Coalescing Operator (??)
2. The As Cast
3. Auto-Properties
4. The Stopwatch Class
5. TimeSpan factory methods
• C#/.NET Five More Little Wonders (part 2)
1. string.IsNullOrEmpty() and string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace()
2. string.Equals()
3. using Statements
4. static Class Modifier
5. Object and Collection Initializers
• C#/.NET Five Final Little Wonders (part 3)
1. Implicit Typing
2. LINQ Extension Methods
3. Extension Methods
4. System.IO.Path
5. Generic Delegates
• C#/.NET Two More Little Wonders
1. The ToList() LINQ Extension Method
2. The ToDictionary() LINQ Extension Method

I use a number of the above-mentioned tips on a regular basis, was familiar with a few others, but there are some I didn’t know at all (and am assuming the same is probably true for many of you).

There’s also a post linking to these various pages and to a presentation covering the same ground.

Enjoy! :-)