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Developers can be caught out by the fact that type inference doesn't work for constructors: class Tuple<T1,T2> { public Tuple(T1 value1, T2 value2) { } } var x = new Tuple(2, "two"); // This WON'T work... var y = new Tuple<int, string>(2, "t...

An iterator method is not executed until the return value is enumerated. It's therefore advantageous to assert preconditions outside of the iterator. public static IEnumerable<int> Count(int start, int count) { // The exception will throw when the method is called, not when the result i...

Use parentheses around the expression to the left of the => operator to indicate multiple parameters. delegate int ModifyInt(int input1, int input2); ModifyInt multiplyTwoInts = (x,y) => x * y; Similarly, an empty set of parentheses indicates that the function does not accept parameters. ...

Returns a subset of items which the specified predicate is true for them. List<string> trees = new List<string>{ "Oak", "Birch", "Beech", "Elm", "Hazel", "Maple" }; Method syntax // Select all trees with name of length 3 v...

using System.Speech.Recognition; // ... SpeechRecognitionEngine recognitionEngine = new SpeechRecognitionEngine(); recognitionEngine.LoadGrammar(new DictationGrammar()); recognitionEngine.SpeechRecognized += delegate(object sender, SpeechRecognizedEventArgs e) { Console.WriteLine(&quot...

SpeechRecognitionEngine recognitionEngine = new SpeechRecognitionEngine(); GrammarBuilder builder = new GrammarBuilder(); builder.Append(new Choices("I am", "You are", "He is", "She is", "We are", "They are")); builder.Append(new Choices...

emails.Select(email => email.Body)

String.Trim() string x = " Hello World! "; string y = x.Trim(); // "Hello World!" string q = "{(Hi!*"; string r = q.Trim( '(', '*', '{' ); // "Hi!" String.TrimStart() and String.TrimEnd() string q = "{(Hi*"; string r = q.TrimStart( '{...

The Range and Repeat static methods on Enumerable can be used to generate simple sequences. Range Enumerable.Range() generates a sequence of integers given a starting value and a count. // Generate a collection containing the numbers 1-100 ([1, 2, 3, ..., 98, 99, 100]) var range = Enumerable.Ran...

The following is a bad idea because it would dispose the db variable before returning it. public IDBContext GetDBContext() { using (var db = new DBContext()) { return db; } } This can also create more subtle mistakes: public IEnumerable<Person> GetPeople(int age)...

using System; using System.Reflection; using System.Reflection.Emit; class DemoAssemblyBuilder { public static void Main() { // An assembly consists of one or more modules, each of which // contains zero or more types. This code creates a single-module // a...

using System.Linq.Expressions; // Manually build the expression tree for // the lambda expression num => num < 5. ParameterExpression numParam = Expression.Parameter(typeof(int), "num"); ConstantExpression five = Expression.Constant(5, typeof(int)); BinaryExpression numLessTh...

// Define an expression tree, taking an integer, returning a bool. Expression<Func<int, bool>> expr = num => num < 5; // Call the Compile method on the expression tree to return a delegate that can be called. Func<int, bool> result = expr.Compile(); // Invoke the dele...

using System.Linq.Expressions; // Create an expression tree. Expression<Func<int, bool>> exprTree = num => num < 5; // Decompose the expression tree. ParameterExpression param = (ParameterExpression)exprTree.Parameters[0]; BinaryExpression operation = (BinaryExpression)exp...

This code will subscribe to the emails observable twice: emails.Where(email => email.From == "John").Subscribe(email => Console.WriteLine("A")); emails.Where(email => email.From == "Mary").Subscribe(email => Console.WriteLine("B")); To share a...

The following examples will not compile: string s = "\c"; char c = '\c'; Instead, they will produce the error Unrecognized escape sequence at compile time.

There are several places where you can use String.Format indirectly: The secret is to look for the overload with the signature string format, params object[] args, e.g.: Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0} - {1}", name, value)); Can be replaced with shorter version: Console.WriteLine...

Create a new file in your text editor or IDE named HelloWorld.java. Then paste this code block into the file and save: public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello, World!"); } } Run live on Ideone Note: For Java to r...

A Stream is a sequence of elements upon which sequential and parallel aggregate operations can be performed. Any given Stream can potentially have an unlimited amount of data flowing through it. As a result, data received from a Stream is processed individually as it arrives, as opposed to performin...

Collect with toList() and toSet() Elements from a Stream can be easily collected into a container by using the Stream.collect operation: System.out.println(Arrays .asList("apple", "banana", "pear", "kiwi", "orange") .stream() .filter...