My earlier post on how to write a good question is pretty long, and I suspect that even when I refer people to it, often they don't bother reading it. So here's a short list of questions to check after you've written a question (and to think about before you write the question): Have you done some research before asking the question? 1 Have you explained what you've already tried to solve your problem? Have you specified which language and platform you're using, including version number where relevant[...]

Go get Noda Time 1.0! NuGet package (and the testing package) Project home page Project downloads page v1.0 user guide v1.0 API reference Today is the end of the longest release cycle I've been personally involved in. On November 5th 2009, I announced my intention to write a port of Joda Time for .NET. The next day, Noda Time was born - with a lofty (foolhardy) set of targets. Near the end of a talk *about* Noda Time this evening, I released Noda Time 1.0.0. It's taken t[...]

This weekend, I was writing some demo code for the async chapter of C# in Depth - the idea was to decompile a simple asynchronous method and see what happened. I received quite a surprise during this, in a way which had nothing to do with asynchrony. Given that at execution time, text refers to an instance of System.String, and assuming nothing in the body of the loop captures the ch variable, how would you expect the following loop to be compiled? foreach (char ch in text) {     // Body here [...]

This post is partly meant to be a general announcement, and partly meant to be something I can point people at in the future (rather than writing a short version of this on each email). These days, I get at least a few emails practically every day along the lines of: "I saw you on Stack Overflow, and would like you to answer this development question for me..." It's clear that the author: Is aware of Stack Overflow Is aware that Stack Overflow is a site for development Q&A Is aware that I answ[...]

I'm getting fairly frequent questions - mostly on Twitter - about whether there's going to be a third edition of C# in Depth. I figure it's worth answering it once in some detail rather than repeatedly in 140 characters ;) I'm currently writing a couple of new chapters covering the new features in C# 5 - primarily async, of course. The current "plan" is that these will be added to the existing 2nd edition to create a 3rd edition. There will be minimal changes to the existing text of the 2nd edition - basi[...]