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C# IDE Tips & Tricks Part 2

November 11, 2008

This post explains the some more tips on using Visual C# IDE to enhance developer productivity. Solution Configurater Right click your solution in your IDE then select the ConfigurationManager you see the following window where you have the option…

C# IDE Tips & Tricks Part 1

November 9, 2008

Kalyan Bandarupalli

C#, IDE tips, Tricks

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C# Developers have been spending most their day activities with Visual studio IDE. They may have to understand the following activities to do their job. Understanding Code Developer must be able analyze the relationship between classes and what API it…

C# ?? operator

November 4, 2008

Kalyan Bandarupalli

C#, C# Opearators

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The ?? operator in C# called null-coalescing operator is used to define a default value for a nullable value types and reference types. It returns the left-hand operand if it is not null and returns right-hand operand if it is…

Using keyword in C#

November 4, 2008

Kalyan Bandarupalli

C#, C# Keywords

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Introduction Using keyword in C# can be used as directive and as well as statement. When you use using as Directive you will get the following advantages You can use the types in a namespace by declaring with using keyword.…

Calculating the size of the File in C#

October 14, 2008

Kalyan Bandarupalli

Introduction This code snippet explains how to calculate the size of the file and display in a label control. For example I am taking PDF file to find the size. It Displays the size of the file in Bytes, Kilobytes…

Lambda Expressions in C# 3.0

July 12, 2008

Kalyan Bandarupalli

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Lambda expressions is one of the features introduced in the C# 3.0. Lambda expressions help you to ease the burden of writing verbose Anonymous Methods. I will explain the where to use the Anonymous methods first then we see the…

Extension Methods Feature in C# 3.0

July 12, 2008

Kalyan Bandarupalli

It is one of the new feature introduced in C# 3.0 “As the name implies, extension methods extend existing .NET types with new methods.” Here i am going to extend the String type to write an extension method. Example Adding…

Object and Collection Initializers Feature in C# 3.0

July 12, 2008

Kalyan Bandarupalli

C# 3.0 introduced the another interesting feature Object and Collection initialization expressions. Object Intialization Expressions allows you to initialize an object without invoking the constructor and setting its properties. If you take Employee Class as an Example: public class Employee…

Automatically Implemented Properties Feature in C# 3.0

July 12, 2008

Kalyan Bandarupalli

Introduction of Automatic Properties in C# 3.0 make property declaration more concise. It saves some of your time in typing a lot of code. Example: class Employee { public string FirstName { get; set; } } Benefit of using Automatic…

Test driven development using C#

July 6, 2008

Kalyan Bandarupalli

This post explains how TDD can be implemented in C# using NUNIT. You can read the Introduction TDD to get an idea on TDD. Nunit is a open source framework to for .NET which helps you to automate the unit…