While designing a CRF, little short-cuts can save you lots and lots of time. This time-saver is straight-forward code-wise and should fit right into your C# code without much modification. During CRF design time, I often have CRFs that have …
Binary serialization in C#
Serializing an object into a binary file is an easy and fast way to persist your objects. If binary serialization is used to cache objects normally read from an XML file, a database or some other file format, you’ll get …
Overload the array square bracket operator in C#
Although operator overloading is possible in C# (just like in C++), overloading the array square bracket operator is by definition not possible. However, C# provides an alternative called Indexers (C# Programming Guide). This is directly from the Microsoft C# Reference for …
Top 10 differences between Java and C#
My latest transition from Java to C# left me scratching my head and scrambling to find the differences. Don’t get me wrong — they are very similar. But some key syntax and philosophical differences set these two languages apart. Below …
Why does an abstract class need to implement interface methods?
In a comment for a previous post (Top 10 differences between Java and C#), John P. Wood wrote: As a (primarily) Java developer, I’ve also noticed that C# handles abstract classes that implement interfaces differently. In Java, an abstract class …