I’ve always found Portable Class Library (PCL) configuration to be a bit of a mystery. In simple cases, it’s simple: start a new PCL project in Visual Studio, select the environments you want to support, and away you go. But what’s going on under the hood, and what do all the options mean? How do […]

This post is the answer to yesterday's brainteaser. As a reminder, I was asking what purpose this code might have: public static class Extensions  {      public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)      {          source.Add(item);      }  } There are plenty of answers, varying from completely incorrect (sorry!) to pretty much spot on. As many people noticed, ICollection<T> already has an Add method taking an item of type T. So what difference could this make? Well, consider LinkedLis[...]

This post is the answer to yesterday’s brainteaser. As a reminder, I was asking what purpose this code might have: public static class Extensions  {      public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)      {          source.Add(item);      }  } There are plenty of answers, varying from completely incorrect (sorry!) to pretty much spot on. As many people […]

Just a really quick one today... What's the point of this code? Does it have any point at all? public static class Extensions {     public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)     {         source.Add(item);     } } Bonus marks if you can work out what made me think about it. I suggest you ROT-13 answers to avoid spoilers for other readers.

Just a really quick one today… What’s the point of this code? Does it have any point at all? public static class Extensions {     public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)     {         source.Add(item);     } } Bonus marks if you can work out what made me think about it. I suggest you ROT-13 answers to […]