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Programming Languages
C#
4 Jul 2005   Updated: 4 Jul 2005   Rating: 4.75/5    Votes: 36   Popularity: 7.14
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Don't emphasize practices that may have an affect on performance in a few cases

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All Topics
3 Mar 2016   Updated: 3 Mar 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Let’s discuss another of the features that may be coming to the next version of the C# language: Local Functions.
17 Dec 2015   Updated: 17 Dec 2015   Rating: 3.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Lessons from .NET Bootcamp 2.0
16 Dec 2015   Updated: 16 Dec 2015   Rating: 4.87/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.40
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Here are my favourite Visual Studio 2015 extensions
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I forgot to fork before I started working and how to fix it
16 Dec 2015   Updated: 16 Dec 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Exceptional edge cases
16 Dec 2015   Updated: 16 Dec 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Lambda Syntax and Performance
31 Dec 2015   Updated: 31 Dec 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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2015: A look back
21 Jan 2016   Updated: 21 Jan 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Conference report from NDC London
17 Feb 2016   Updated: 17 Feb 2016   Rating: 4.56/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.74
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Equality and Equivalence
18 May 2016   Updated: 18 May 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 3.01
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The TL;DR; version is: Sometimes. The more important question is how you ensure that you generate the method call you want. Let’s start with a bit of background. Lambda expressions do not have types. However, they can be converted into any compatible delegate type.
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The Curious Case of Async, Await, and IDisposable
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Here are some of my thoughts on yesterday's issue surrounding the GitHub for Visual Studio Extension.
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
3 Apr 2016   Updated: 3 Apr 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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Build recap
5 Jan 2016   Updated: 5 Jan 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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In this post, I look at the areas where I will invest my time in the coming year.
General Programming
String
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String Interpolation and the Conditional Operators
Operating Systems
Windows
16 Dec 2015   Updated: 16 Dec 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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How to create a custom Kudu script for the AllReady app
Programming Languages
C#
28 Jan 2016   Updated: 28 Jan 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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C# 7 Feature Proposal: Ref Returns and Locals
24 Feb 2016   Updated: 24 Feb 2016   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.91
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Throwing things in C#
6 Apr 2016   Updated: 6 Apr 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.52
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C# feature proposal - new access modifier
12 Apr 2016   Updated: 12 Apr 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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C# 7 proposal: with-expressions
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This post discusses the difference in C# between true and not false.
2 Aug 2016   Updated: 2 Aug 2016   Rating: 4.78/5    Votes: 15   Popularity: 5.48
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The importance of "All None of Them." Let’s discuss how this bit of set theory can make our lives as developers easier.
C# 6.0
16 Dec 2015   Updated: 16 Dec 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.89
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A C# 6 gotcha: Initialization vs. Expression Bodied Members
17 Dec 2015   Updated: 17 Dec 2015   Rating: 4.59/5    Votes: 16   Popularity: 5.53
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?. in C#: When properties might be null
C# 7.0
9 Feb 2016   Updated: 9 Feb 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Continuing my discussion on proposed C# 7 features, let’s take a brief look at Slices.
Visual Studio
16 Dec 2015   Updated: 16 Dec 2015   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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Visual Studio 2015 is here!

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Architect Bill Wagner Software LLC
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Bill Wagner is one of the world's foremost C# developers and a member of the ECMA C# Standards Committee. He is President of the Humanitarian Toolbox, has been awarded Microsoft Regional Director and .NET MVP for 10+years, and was recently appointed to the .NET Foundation Advisory Council. Wagner currently works with companies ranging from start-ups to enterprises improving the software development process and growing their software development teams.