interface - Grant Winney

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.

c#

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

Hacktoberfest and the promise of free t-shirts had me looking for a project to help with this month. That’s how I stumbled across GeneGenie.Gedcom, a genealogical library written in C# (read

c#

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

While marking some code obsolete the other day, I noticed an unexpected behavior (at first glance). Say you have a class, and an interface it implements. The second argument (true) indicates whether or

dependencies

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

The code in this post is also available on Github. In a mood at work the other day (after hunting down some obscure bug that would’ve been more apparent, had I had

comparison

Relative Ordering with IComparable and CompareTo

Someone asked a question on StackOverflow about the difference between the int CompareTo method and an ordinary If condition. As it turns out, the poster’s if statement is exactly how Int32 implements