Upcoming Language Feature Changes in C# 6
If you’re a C# programmer and haven’t been living in a cave, you’ll know big changes are coming. Now the Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate is available to download, I figured it was a good time to...
View ArticleAuto-Property Changes in C# 6
This is the first part of a series of posts I’m making into Upcoming Language Feature Changes in C# 6. In this post, I’m looking at the Auto-Property changes in C# 6. It’s probably going to be one of...
View ArticleStatic Members in C# 6
This is the second part of a series of posts I’m making into Upcoming Language Feature Changes in C# 6. This feature definitely fits in the syntactic sugar category and will should result in less...
View ArticleIndex Initializers in C# 6
This is the third part of a series of posts I’m making into Upcoming Language Feature Changes in C# 6. This is another syntactic sugar feature, this time making initializing objects with indexers more...
View ArticleException filters in C# 6
This is the fourth part of a series of posts I’m making into Upcoming Language Feature Changes in C# 6. I must admit, I didn’t initially understand the fuss with exception filters. I saw a few tweets...
View ArticleAwait in catch and finally blocks in C# 6
This is the fifth part of a series of posts I’m making into Upcoming Language Feature Changes in C# 6. This is definitely not syntactic sugar and if you’re doing any asynchronous programming you’ll be...
View ArticleNull-conditional operators in C# 6
This is the seventh part of a series of posts I’m making into Upcoming Language Feature Changes in C# 6. (Now Visual Studio 2015 is available, they’re not so “upcoming”). I’m going to come straight out...
View ArticleString interpolation in C# 6
This is the eighth part of a series of posts I’m making into Upcoming Language Feature Changes in C# 6. (Now Visual Studio 2015 is available, they’re not so “upcoming”). This is another really nice...
View ArticleExpression-bodied members in C# 6
This is the sixth part of a series of posts I’m making into Upcoming Language Feature Changes in C# 6. (Now Visual Studio 2015 is available, they’re not so “upcoming”). Back to the syntactic sugar...
View ArticleVisual Studio Tip – Named Parameters in Generated Methods
Really quick tip that I found recently while refactoring some old code. If your using “Generate Method” (Ctrl + .) in Visual Studio, the method you’re generating uses the same names as the local...
View ArticlePersist Claims Transformation in a cookie with MVC and OWIN
Claims transformation (or claims augmentation as it’s sometimes called) in an MVC claims based application is “easy”. All you need is a simple piece of code: Unfortunately, where you add that code...
View ArticleConvert unix epoch time to DateTime in C#
I recently had to convert unix epoch time to DateTime and like the rest of the world turned to stackoverflow. The top answer is a very simple solution of adding the unix time, which is in milliseconds,...
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