Back in April I blogged about a crazy thing you can do with extension methods in C#3.0. At the time I was adamant that it was a bad idea. I still think it is a bad idea, however, my thoughts have evolved a little since then and I have, possibly a solution to my hesitance …
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Here is an example of a crazy extension method that alters the semantics of method calling. First the extension method: public static class MyExtensions { public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this string target) { return string.IsNullOrEmpty(target); } } Instead of calling the static method IsNullOrEmpty() on string, we are turning it around to allow it to be …
This is something I’ve been mulling around in my head for a few days now. “Out of the box” C# 3.0 does not support mixins, but I think you can get some of the abilities of a mixin with what is there already. Firstly I should probably explain what a mixin is. A mixin is …
I’ve been looking at more of the language enhancements in C# 3.0. In this post I’m going to look at Extensions. There have been many times went a class has needed to be extended, but the additional code just doesn’t sit right on the class itself. In that case a utility or helper class is …
