C# and .NET Little Wonders

I arrived safely in Las Vegas after my various

travel snafus.

Checking email before bed, I discovered a wonderful new

post of Kean’s that
I like so much I will simply go ahead and reproduce it in its entirety:

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

Just like Kean, I use a number of these tips on a regular basis and was familiar with a few others, but the very first one was new to me.

James also published an

overview linking to these various pages and a

presentation covering the same ground.

Many thanks to James for creating these and Kean for discovering and pointing them out!