Dot Net Tips and Tricks

VS 2008 and the accompaning c# 3.0 has virtually changed the way I write code. I know that’s a lot to say about a product, but I feel that strongly about it. It has simplified my writing by exciting me to go back and look at how I write code.

I’ll start with Lambda Expressions because they have made the most difference in my code. For those who need a starter course, a good article on them is here. What I love about them is ability to create action functions with them. An example would be the following:

_listofWidgits.ForEach(t =>

{

//Do something to each widgit.

}

No defining some method, just do it. Another alternative would be to define a method that takes a widgit as the only parameter and phrase it as follows:

_listofWidgits.ForEach(SomeMethod); //No need to spell out the fact that you are passing a widgit to the method. Intellisense does it for you.

How’s that for shortening your code. Anyway, I’ll talk more about LINQ and c# 3.o soon.