If you’re working with traditional ADO.NET data types – like the DataTable – in your data access code and wanting to wire up a web service to serve up data, you’ve likely run into some issues. You’re either getting errors due to failed serialization or trying to deal wi... [More]

  There are certainly powerful and complex multithreading capabilities built into the .NET Framework. But if you’re looking for an easy way to perform asynchronous operations in your applications, delegates are a quick solution. Delegates offer easy-to-use methods that abstract most of th... [More]

LINQ’s set operations provide an easy (and fast!) way to filter or combine collections of objects in .NET. The four extension methods that perform set operations – Distinct, Except, Intersect, and Union – are available through the IEnumerable<T> and IQueryable<T> interf... [More]

C# delegates are fun to use. They let you encapsulate a bit of logic in a nice, neat little object that behaves like a method. All you have to do is declare the signature of the method that the delegate can reference without having to specify the actual method itself. This allows you to define how a... [More]