Rob Garrett – Blog

In my previous post on Generics, I received a comment from Eddie, who was asking why developers would want to use the following constraint, in the example below, when he would pass the parameters as IComparable interface types. public static bool IsLessThan(T one, T two) where T:IComparable { return one.CompareTo(two) < 0; } public static [...]

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I forgot to mention in my last post, about Generics, that Sahil Malik helped me out with the solution. Between the two of us we figured out why parameterized constructors are not allowed when creating new instances of generic types. I would have edited my initial post, but the formatting in my blog that displays [...]

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I’ve been playing around with generics in C# today. Simply put, generics are akin to templates in C++, only much better. My aim in this post is not to explain the in’s and out’s of generics, in the new 2.0 version of the .NET Framework but to highlight some key points of interest. For a [...]

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I kept promising myself I would write a post on how to expose a .NET assembly to COM without having to use RegASM.exe. Someone asked me today for the very code to do this, so I thought now would be as good as time as any to write my post. Microsoft provided a wonderful thing [...]

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Following on from Jeff Atwood’s post about comparing a string to empty string (“”), I found out that C# and VB.net do not behave the same when comparing a string that is null. In the following C# snippet, the code will display The String is NOT Null: string s = null; if (s == “”) [...]

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Jeff Atwood makes a complaint about “performance programmers” breaking his code. In his example, Jeff shows the following snippet of code: If Value <> “” Then   If nvc.Item(name) = “” Then     nvc.Add(name, Value)   End If End If … which was then changed to by the performance programmer.: If Value <> String.Empty Then [...]

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Announcing FreePOP3 …. http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=2331c59d-e726-4197-b28f-ba17845153d4 I’ve not had the chance to try this out yet but I plan to. Hopefully it has the feature of leaving messages on the server. Ideally I’d like an IMAP client, but POP3 will work for what I need for now. Anyone know of a free IMAP client for .NET?  

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