LINQ — Some pitfalls to look out for

As great as LINQ is and how it has transformed the way we interact with data in .Net to the point many of us wonder how we had managed without it all this time! There are however, some pitfalls one can fall into, especially with the concept of delayed execution…

Test your maths skills at the MathDOJO!

Another productive weekend bares fruit for another mini game! This time I’ve put together a dojo-themed mini game whose sole purpose is to test your ability to do simple (well, mostly) arithmetic calculations in your head and your tolerance for my sense of…

No covariance for value type

For a while now I’ve been wondering why C#’s support for covariance does not cover value types, both in normal array covariance and covariance in the generic parameter introduced in C# 4:

1: void Main()

2: {

IList doesn’t extend IList

Looking at these two images snapped right off MSDN, what do you notice?

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that IEnumerable<T> extends IEnumerable but IList<T> doesn’t extend IList!?