So, today it occurred to me that the C# application that I am developing is a bit too slow on startup, and I decided to throw the visual stu...

I had been thinking about posting this for quite some time now, and all by coincidence I happened to get a chance to mention it just the oth...

Before reading any further, please read the disclaimer . When you declare a member variable and you pre-initialize it at the same time, a...

Before reading any further, please read the disclaimer . When you declare a member variable, and then you try to read it from within the ...

Introduction Pernicious Local Variable Initialization is the cargo cult programming ( W ) practice of pre-initializing a local varia...

Before reading any further, please read the disclaimer . The C# compiler is kind enough to give you a "field is never assigned to...

Please do not get me wrong; C# is awesome. It is the language of my choice, even though I am pretty well versed in C++ and Java. That havin...

This post has been superseded by a new post in 2022 See michael.gr - Intertwine This is a C# project that I did back in 2011. It consists of...

Solon's original phrase was "Gerasko D' Aei Polla Didaskomenos", but here in Greece we use the shorter form, "Gerasko...

If you are a developer with any real-world experience to speak of, you have undoubtedly come across the following situation: you made a cha...