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March 2004 - Posts

A small point about boxing and value types

An explicit call to a struct method, even if it overrides an object method, will not implicitly box.  However, consider this case: static void Main() { int i=65536; Console.WriteLine("This is boxed: {0}", i); Console.WriteLine("This Read More
posted Saturday, March 27, 2004 3:21 PM by richard | 2 Comments
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string.Format in SQL

I needed string.Format in SQL just now, so I made it up (not very exciting but nicer than writing nested REPLACE statements. YMMV   DROP FUNCTION dbo.fnFormatString GO CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fnFormatString(@format varchar(6000), @arg1 sql_variant, Read More
posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:52 PM by richard | 2 Comments
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Eric Gunnerson does Dynamic Code

This is a great new article. Of special note is the little Whidbey note at the bottom: Delegates have been optimized and, if I'm reading the chart right, will be about 3 times faster :)   Read More
posted Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:16 PM by richard | 2 Comments
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Overheard on microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp...

Poster #1 (talking about some C# beginner complaining): Last time I saw your post you were complaining that you actually had towrite some code...  Did you expect to write something like:public MyApp(){    Create.MyPerfectApplication();} Read More
posted Wednesday, March 03, 2004 6:31 PM by richard | 2 Comments
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