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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.NET Community Blogs. When they shut it down, I dumped all of my old posts to Wordpress. You can still check out the original blog on the Wayback Machine.
2008-08-21
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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.NET Community Blogs. When they shut it down, I dumped all of my old posts to Wordpress. You can still check out the original blog on the Wayback Machine.
2008-08-19
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Extension Methods Roundup: Intersect, Union, AsNullable and GroupEvery

Here we go with the third installment of the Extension Method Roundup. The reason behind these ‘code dumps’ is that LINQ is a central part of my coding and always find new problems I want to find elegant solutions to. Hope these prove as useful to you as they do to me…. 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. You can still check out the original blog on the Wayback Machine.
2008-07-31
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