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Refactoring

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To make it clear: “Refactoring” (as the term made famous by Martin Fowler in his great book with the same name), means to change the code without changing its behavior. Too many people talk about refactoring when changing some of the behavior of a system. This interpretation is just plain wrong.
This distinction is not just [...]

Creating a dynamic xml reader with C# 4.0

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“The static type dynamic” was the catchphrase at PDC’08 when talking about what’s new in C# 4.0. The dynamic type seems to be introduced mainly to simplify the code you write when doing Com interop. But many also see this as a step towards the dynamic languages for C#. I like C#. I also like [...]