Expression Bodied Accessors in C#

Taswar Bhatti May 28, 2020 No Comments

In C# 7 there are Expression Bodied Accessors which allows you to write getter and setters somewhat more functional way, somewhat lambda’ish. Let me show you an example. You may remember the old way of writing getter and setters like below. Pre Expression Bodied Accessors Getter and Setter

public class Automobile 
{
  private string _brand;
  public string Brand 
  {
    get { return _brand; }
    set { _brand = value; }
  }
}

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public class Automobile

{

private string _brand;

public string Brand

{

get { return _brand; }

set { _brand = value; }

}

Expression Bodied Accessors in C# 7 […]

.NET, C#

csharp, dotnet

Digit Separators and Binary Literals in C#

Taswar Bhatti May 20, 2020 No Comments

In C#7 there are Digit Separators and Binary Literals which were added. One may wonder what these are? Basically you can replace long number values with underscore (_) such that code readability is improved. Let me give you couple of examples of it to make it clear.

//old way of 
var myBigNumber = 12345678901234567890;

//new way with digital separators
var myBigNumberNewWay = 123_456_789_012_345_678_90;

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//old way of

var myBigNumber = 12345678901234567890;

//new way with digital separators

var myBigNumberNewWay = 123_456_789_012_345_678_90;

Neat but it doesn’t end there you […]

.NET, C#

csharp, dotnet

What is the advantage of using discards in C#?

Taswar Bhatti May 14, 2020 No Comments

So one may ask “What is the advantage of using discards in C#?”, and if you don’t know what discards are you can check out the MS C#7 Documentation about it. Basically discards are variables in simple terms, and the declaration of the variable as a discard is by assigning it the underscore (_) as […]

.NET, C#

C#, csharp, dotnet

C# what is the difference between ValueTuple and Tuple

Taswar Bhatti May 6, 2020 No Comments

Some may wonder what is the difference between ValueTuple and Tuple that was released in C# 7, and you might say I have been using Tuples for a while now. Whats the difference? Some of you will remember with code like below that showcase the use of ValueTuple since .NET Framework 4.7

public Tuple<string, string> GetUserName(int userid)
{
    var firstname = db.GetFirstname(userid);
    var lastname = db.GetLastname(userid);

    return new Tuple(firstname, lastname);
}

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public Tuple<string, string> GetUserName(int userid)

{

var firstname = db.GetFirstname(userid);

var lastname = db.GetLastname(userid);

return new Tuple(firstname, lastname);

}

In order […]

.NET, C#

.net, csharp, tuples

How to ask Gatsby to request data from GraphQL

Taswar Bhatti May 4, 2020 No Comments

As we have got to know that Gatsby has built in GraphQL, we will learn this time how to ask Gatsby to request data from GraphQL. We will ask for the data that we wish to populate into our blog. For simplicity sake we will only target on the title and tagline. Eventually we will […]

Gatsby, VSCode

gatsby, vscode

Expression Bodied Accessors in C#

Digit Separators and Binary Literals in C#

What is the advantage of using discards in C#?

C# what is the difference between ValueTuple and Tuple

How to ask Gatsby to request data from GraphQL

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