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Thu, Sep 3 2009 20:48

Make immutable objects mutable

In .Net the String object is an immutable object, which means that it’s basically constant and can’t be changed. You can’t change a string, you can only create new strings. The various methods that the String class have never directly change the string...
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Mon, Aug 24 2009 15:56

Nifty extension methods

One of my favorite features in .Net 3.5 is the ability to extend a class using extension methods. Earlier you could only extend a class either by creating a new class that inherits from the first class or you could create a partial class. Of course if...
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Wed, Jun 10 2009 3:36

How to prevent Extension methods from appearing as global functions

C# have static (or shared) classes which VB lacks. Instead VB uses modules which are almost the same thing. One thing differs though and that is that modules makes its public methods appear as global accessible functions, meaning you don’t have...
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