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Throw Before You Yield

In a comment left by Bart De Smet, he pointed out that I failed to address the fact that the execution of all “yielding” methods is deferred…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.NET Community Blogs. When they shut it down, I dumped all of my old posts to Wordpress.

MSDN Wiki?

I just love the fact that there’s a “Community Content” section to the MSDN documentation. I just found out that there’s an undocumented exception coming from the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage.Subject property, I browsed to the relevant MSDN page and simply added a line saying so…. You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.

Pitfall: Static Field Inline Initialization Order of Execution

Here’s something I fell into today. You have a class that has some members that need to be calculated once. So you use static readonly fields. One of those members is a calculation of some of those members. Take the following code for instance:… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it. Context: This post was automatically imported from my old blog, which was originally hosted on Microsoft’s ASP.