interface - Grant Winney

Jul 23, 2017

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What do we mean by API?

An API is an Application Programming Interface, but what's that really mean? In a more practical sense, it's one programmer hiding the (possibly messy) details of their own code behind a nice veneer, in order to make it easier for another programmer to consume it in their own program....

Oct 31, 2016

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How to compare two objects (testing for equality) in C#

It's common to need to compare two objects for equality, such as when detecting changes before a save operation. What does it mean to define equality in C#? What is given to you out of the box, and what can you define yourself? Let's take a look!...

c#interface

Feb 04, 2015

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The effect of the Obsolete attribute on a class is ignored when there's an interface involved

The effect of the Obsolete attribute on a class is ignored when there's an interface involved. It caught me by surprise, but on second thought makes complete sense!...

May 31, 2014

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Mocking Dependencies (silly dependency! um... not that kind of mocking)

After hunting down some obscure bug at work that would’ve been more apparent with a good test, I started back-filling old code with unit tests. That meant removing some dependencies on things I didn’t actually need to test - in other words, mocking....

comparison programming interface sorting gs-test

Dec 16, 2013

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Relative Ordering with IComparable and CompareTo

The IComparable interfaces can be used to compare two objects for the purpose of determining how they should be ordered relative to one another. All primitive types implement these interfaces, and the result of `CompareTo` is fairly intuitive in most cases, but let's take a closer look at them....

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