If you’re new to programming then without a doubt you’ve had to ask yourself what is the best beginner programming language so that you know where to focus your efforts. You’re about to go invest all of this time and mental effort into learning a new skill, so of course…

I’ve been making it my mission more recently to try and reduce the barriers for people that want to get started with programming. If you’re just getting started out, it can be incredibly intimidating and often leaves folks quitting before they get started. When you factor in just how many…

If you’re newer to C# or programming in general, you may have used an iterator and not even realized it. Iterators can be a performant and effective tool that we have access to as .NET developers that allow us to traverse collections of data. Because one of the requirements of…

In C# and .NET, as programmers we have access to an interface that is called IEnumerable (or IEnumerable<T> for the generic version). Using IEnumerable allows us to iterate from a collection or data source by moving one element at a time. It’s also important to note that all collection types…

(Check out the original article on my website) This article is not set out to try and persuade you, the reader, that either using an iterator or materialized collection will universally solve your problems. Both iterator and materialized collection usage can be used to solve the scenarios that we’ll be…

(Check out the original article on my website) As C# programmers, we’ve all been burned by asynchronous EventHandlers. And if you still haven’t yet, then hopefully this article will arm you for being able to better navigate long debugging sessions where functionality mysteriously stops working in your application. …

(This article was originally published on my website) When we discuss async EventHandlers, the first thing that comes to mind for many of us is that it’s the only exception that we seem to allow for the dreaded async void setup. When I had written about this before, I was…

(This post was originally published here on my blog in full) Working with strings is probably one of the earliest things we get to do as C# developers. In fact, if you consider that most of us start with the “Hello, World!” example, you’re being exposed to the string type…

(This article is originally published on my blog) Having worked with C# for quite some time now writing desktop applications, I’ve begun making the transition over to .NET standard. In my professional working experience, it was a much slower transition because of product requirements and time, but in my own…