My tryst with Code

Articles from year 2008

the Microsoft "2008" wave of Softwares

So I finally decided that it's high time I try out the new 2008 wave of MS softwares... and I started by formatting the OS drive of my desktop and installing the new 64bit Windows Server 2008. Pretty fast ...
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so what's the difference between string and System.String?

Well nothing really!!! string is just a c# alias and System.String is a .NET type i.e. "string" is an alias for "String".
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yield return - modern plumbing for iteration??

yield, IEnumerator, IEnumerable,... confused?... well let me explain: ...
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String.IsNullOrEmpty() - boon or bane

So, as part of a functionality i wanted to implement, i needed to validate whether a string was null or empty. Came up with 3 different ways: ...
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