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Take advantage of default interface methods in C# 8.0 to add new methods to an interface without breaking existing implementations. One of the new and interesting features in C# 8.0 is the support for ...

One way to clean up an existing API is to provide a fluent interface to it. The goal of a fluent interface is to simplify the consumption of your API by making it more readable and discoverable. If ...

Even if you're not working in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, .NET provides you with a way to create a read-only collection or to convert an existing List into a read-only collection. I had a client ...

Interfaces help define a contract, or agreement, between your application and other objects. This agreement indicates what sort of methods, properties and events are exposed by an object. But ...

Rocket Software has announced the general availability of the Rocket U2 Toolkit for .NET v1.2 (U2NETDK), which delivers Microsoft .NET interfaces for the UniVerse and UniData data servers. The new ...

If the success of a content management system is directly related to how much its creators talk it up, then IDConstructor v4.1 is going to be a real winner. While the hosted version is already ...

OPC Express Interface will enable both .Net clients and existing OPC Classic clients to access OPC Classic servers at the same time. OPC Xi enables client/server communications when both the client ...

First off, let’s get an understanding of interfaces and why they are needed in programming. An interface is strictly a contract; it doesn’t have any implementation. An interface contains only member ...

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