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Take advantage of custom exception classes to extend error handling or add meaningful information to the errors thrown by your .Net applications An exception is an ...

When building applications, you often come across objects that are quite expensive to create. In some scenarios, the cost of creating new objects is high enough to impact application performance. Here ...

So I'm whipping up something quick and dirty for a work project. I've got a C# class that is all string types, nothing fancy, and once the item is created it gets serialized with the new ...

I'm a big fan of domain driven design. One of the key concepts of that approach are what are called value objects: objects that are considered identical because they have the same values in their ...

A comparer class must implement IEquatable(Of T) and override the System.Object's or the base class' Equals(object) method and GetHashCode method. The GetHashCode method must return the same value for ...