A big challenge with any language is trying to group and organize things sensibly, and returning multiple values is no exception. Let’s check out Tuples and deconstruction, and see how they can help us out.
I was creating a document in Office365 the other day - something I’ve done a hundred times - but when I tried to paste with their custom right-click menu I was greeted with a popup telling me to download a browser addon. Well, that’s weird.
Sometimes the safer way to “update” old code is to leave it be and paint over it with a newer construct. Let’s see how to modernize a BackgroundWorker using Tasks and TaskCompletionSource.
I migrated my addons to MV3, and learned that version numbers increase, DRY is overrated, and 3 and 15 are probably important but I have no idea why. What I didn’t learn is how MV3 made my addon better.
Named arguments in C#.. they’ve been around a long time, but does anyone use them? Let’s check out another feature that helps tame wild code.
C# 7 introduced a new tool for the belt - local functions. Let’s take a look at what they are, how to use them, and why we might not want to.
Checking for nulls in C# is tedious, but C# 6 gave us the null-conditional operator. Let’s see what we can do with it!
The longer I write software, the more I come to appreciate clear code. String interpolation in C# is just one more way to help us do that.
The week of NASA launching Artemis I is a good time to check a few of the many APIs that make tons of raw space data accessible for anyone to use.
Thanks to CEFSharp, we can finally bring WinForms to the web! That didn’t sound right. Okay, let’s just look at hosting a site in IIS and showing it.