Category Archives: CSharp

A good new years gift…

Posted on January 9, 2011 by spgennard

My day job keeps me housed in Visual Studio 2010/Windows, so for my out of hours development I feel I need a change, so for many years I have been a home mac and/or linux user; anyway I have used … Continue reading →

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A Comparison Of .Net COBOL, Visual Basic and C#

Posted on December 15, 2009 by spgennard

Today my collegues Robert and Alex have finally 🙂 decided to publish a document that compares Visual Basic, C# and COBOL for .Net under The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Rather than doing a cut-paste job, here is a quote … Continue reading →

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Detecting the use Mono CLR dynamically

Posted on November 17, 2009 by spgennard

While developing something that could be used on Mono on Windows, Mono on Unix and on Windows with Microsoft’s CLR, I needed to be sensitive to the environment but didn’t want to conditionally compile my code different. So I put … Continue reading →

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C# and reserved words

Posted on October 23, 2009 by spgennard

Have you ever wanted to create some real nasty code in C#… Well C# has a mechanism that allows a token to be used as a literal, thus avoiding the reserved word clash issues… For example; int @int = 1; … Continue reading →

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