protect a variable name from surrounding characters. $ export foo=foo $ echo ${foo}bar # foo exists so this works as expected foobar $ echo $foobar # foobar doesn't ...

I listened recently to a Channel 9 recording of Anders Hejlsberg, Brian Beckman, and Erik Meijer that caught me by surprise. Brian praised VB's dynamic features, yet said he used C# because it had ...

Take advantage of implicit and explicit operators to convert between user-defined types and improve the readability of your code. One of the lesser known features of C# is the ability to create ...