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In the previous part of my series about learning Ruby using C# we discussed constructors, instance methods, parameters, and then touched on blocks a bit at the end. Well, in this post we are going to delve a bit further into classes by talking about static methods (class methods in Ruby) , a bit more info about parameters, and then finish it up with some tidbits about conditionals and loops.

In this episode we will walk you though how to use the .Net tool Reflector. Reflector is the class browser, explorer, analyzer and documentation viewer for .NET. Reflector allows to easily view, navigate, search, decompile and analyze .NET assemblies in C#, Visual Basic and IL.

Skip lists are a fascinating data structure: very simple, and yet have the same asymptotic efficiency as much more complicated AVL trees and red-black trees. In this article, I discuss the asymptotic efficiency of operations on skip lists, the ideas that make them work, and their interesting use cases. And, of course, I give you the source code for a skip list in C#.

Awhile ago, I was conversing with someone about the features of the newer .Net Framework versions. One of the features mentioned was generics. My friend mentioned that he really liked the concept and recently started using them, but that he still couldn't quite see how generic collections could really be put to work. Ok... so that's the lead in for today's post - generics, collections, and 1 more "new" feature called anonymous methods.

When creating a C# application, you may want to access the application configuration file (app.config) programmatically. In order to avoid using hard code, you can use the property: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ConfigurationFile to return the file path of the configuration file.

Usually, every application needs some settings to control an application's look and feel, as well as its behavior, but at the same time these settings should be separated from the code itself. To solve this problem, .NET provides a complete infrastructure whose fundamental element is the setting.

Intersting puzzle, come up with the best way to do some string manipulation, use the language of your choice

A blogger that wants to know what YOU think?

How do you determine whether the memory issue you seem to be experiencing is a .NET memory leak or a native memory leak? Why is it even important? It's the first question I as a consultant would ask you if we were to talk over the phone regarding a high-memory problem you've having. It's extremely important because in most of the cases it narrows the scope of the problem and facilitates bringing the appropriate people, tools and resources for focusing on the task at hand.

This article explains what is the null coalescing operator in C# 2.0 and how to use it to get neater code.

So clearly I am obsessing about getting jQuery features into my WebForm applications. I would seriously love to see the following added ...

Not be out done, here are the 101 LINQ Samples for C#. The interesting thing for someone like myself who has done both VB.NET (actually from VB DOS to VB.NET 2003) and having done mostly C# recently (last 4 years), is the approach that the Visual Basic and C# Teams took. I prefer the VB.NET way of doing things (I guess I am still biased towards the more Verbose/English-like Syntax of VB.NET over the more terse C# Syntax). Either way, the good news is that you can get the job done in either .NET Language, and I am assuming that you'll also be able to do LINQ in IronPython (PHP for .NET), IronRuby (Ruby on .NET), COBOL.NET, and all of the other .NET Languages.

This article teaches you how to implement a Microsoft Outlook-like system tray notification application in C#.

Short how-to screencast showing how to test Abstract classes with Rhino Mocks

How-to connect to MySQL in .NET using ODBC Drivers

Problem: Store some common data in a singleton or static class about your program in an object array, which you store in a class. It saves state between usages and stores some caches, and must be initialized only once and shared in many code locations. Making a new object each time would be expensive.

Being confronted with an occasional bug in a complex system can be quite overwhelming. There are three disciplines that help you to stay strong: 1) Read and learn about your platform and how to debug it. 2) Use tools to quickly get the low hanging fruit. This might be enough in most of the cases to identify the bug. 3) Think out of the box and try to be creative. Build a model, play with it, break it and fix it. In the worst case, you won't have found the cause of the bug, but you learned at least something new about your software.

This month we have even more then in May in fact, we have almost tripple, we cover topics such as Deliver Next-Generation SOA Apps with Microsoft Robotics Development Studio, Get Started Building Silverlight 2 Applications, TypeTransmogrifier, Windows Mobile: Communicating with the Outside World and many more. Enjoy!