Comments on: 10 C# Shorthands that improve productivity

By: James Tiet

James Tiet — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:51:11 +0000

This is really nice article, I love it

By: Visual C# Kicks

Visual C# Kicks — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:36:51 +0000

My favorite is the get-set shorthand.

I’m also wearing of using var. It definitely helps to avoid repeating yourself but indicating variable types is not always repetitive. Sometimes it is part of code clarity. Developers just have to use it properly and many don’t

By: Marf

Marf — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:28:13 +0000

Great tips, a few in here that even I didn’t know. However I was reading your one tutorial on anonymous types and you mention using LINQ rather than lambda. I prefer using LINQ statements as they are more human readable “from S in Employees where S.Age > 35 select S” versus “Where( s => s.Age > 35)”. Any reason you chose to put Lambda in there rather than LINQ?

By: Martijn

Martijn — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:27:01 +0000

Hi Charles,

I have disabled the Visual Editor — its a pain. When I have a post that contains much code I write it in an HTML editor and cut & paste it into Wordpress.

Not the easiest solution, but it keeps things in the right spot. What I really would like to have is a full-screen code editor in Wordpress similar to the visual editor.

Martijn

By: The Cave » Blog Archive » C# Shorthand

The Cave » Blog Archive » C# Shorthand — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:53:17 +0000

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By: Charles Strahan

Charles Strahan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:16:35 +0000

Excellent post! I forgot about that null-coalesce operator – could come in handy .

BTW, I like the way you have your code formatted – it’s something that I’m having a ridiculously hard time getting to work in Wordpress. Perhaps you’d have a suggestion? I have the “SyntaxHighlighter Evolved” plugin working just fine, but my problem is that switching to the Visual Editor removes all of the padding to the code. If you could let me know how you add c# snippets to your blog, I’d love you for ever .

Kind regards,
-Charles

By: Whakate

Whakate — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:30:51 +0000

This is extremely helpful. There are indeed a few I did not use. Thanks

By: robert mcbean

robert mcbean — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:56:43 +0000

i would write

object e = c ?? d;

object e = c ?? new object();

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:06:31 +0000

“By using var you spare yourself one repetition of StringBuilder”

Visual Studio Intellisense will automatically suggest the type after you type “new”, so you’re saving yourself one Tab.

By: AllenDang

AllenDang — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:41:24 +0000

nice article! very usefull.