C# Tips and Traps
Short-circuit your learning of C# with this smorgasbord of handy C# and .NET features.
What you'll learn
Whether you're still learning C# or you already have some experience, it's sometimes hard to know what you don't know. This course is designed to short-circuit your C# learning and provides a whole host of useful information about the sometimes under-used or unknown features of both the C# language and the .Net framework. It's suitable for those who are brand new to C# as well as experienced developers looking to "round off" their C# skills and "fill in the gaps".
Table of contents
- Module Overview 1m
- Customize debugger display values 5m
- Control the display of members in the debugger 3m
- The null-coalescing operator 4m
- The danger of virtual method calls from constructors 3m
- The caller information attributes 5m
- Partial types and methods 5m
- Runtime conversions with Convert.ChangeType 2m
- Expose internal types and members to friend assemblies 3m
- Module Summary 1m
- Module Overview 2m
- Simplifying string empty and null checking code 2m
- Time zones and using DateTime.MinValue to represent null dates 2m
- Conditional compilation and emitting compiler warnings and errors 6m
- Testing char Unicode validity 2m
- Changing the current thread's culture at runtime 4m
- Creating random numbers 4m
- Using Tuples to reduce code 7m
- Forcing reference equality comparisons 4m
- Don't change an object's hashcode after adding to a dictionary 3m
- Creating and using combinable enums 3m
- Module Summary 2m
- Module Overview 1m
- Conditional formatting for positive, negative, and zero numbers 3m
- Marking code as obsolete 3m
- Avoiding re-evaluation of LINQ queries 3m
- Launching arbitrary programs and capturing their output 5m
- Static Array Methods 5m
- Copying, atomic cloning, and resizing of arrays 11m
- Initializing multidimensional rectangular and jagged arrays 4m
- Preserving your stacktrace when rethrowing exceptions 3m
- Module Summary 1m
- Module Overview 1m
- Parsing numeric types with the NumberStyles enumeration 7m
- Preventing ambiguous DateTime parsing 4m
- Avoiding DateTime misparsing with culture-independent strings 5m
- Parsing DateTimes with the DateTimeStyles enumeration 4m
- Converting base types to byte arrays 5m
- as or cast? 4m
- Exiting loops early 4m
- Binary compatibility with optional parameters 6m
- Module Summary 1m
- Module Overview 1m
- Conditionally executing methods based on compilation symbols 4m
- The conditional operator 5m
- Make working with paths easier 13m
- Formatting and aligning values into columns 3m
- Specify methods that take an arbitrary number of arguments 4m
- Simplify constructor overloads 6m
- Finding out information about the current system and platform 4m
- Using indexers in your own classes 9m
- Module Summary 1m
About the author
With over 15 years of experience in both frontend and backend software development, Jason Roberts is a freelance developer, trainer, and author. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computing, is the author of several books, and writes at his blog DontCodeTired.com. Jason is an open source contributor and in addition to enterprise software development, he has designed and developed Windows Store and Windows Phone apps.