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Introduction In this article I will shamelessly “steal” the great work originally posted by Eric Lippert on his blog. However I will translate his code into VB and try to explain it from a VB developers point of view. In my last post, I described what immutable objects are and what the advantage of using them would be. It also described how you could create an immutable class and use it as if it was value type. This time we are going to take this a step further and create an immutable stack. An immutable stack, is that possible? As … Continue reading The Untouchables (part II) – Creating an Immutable stack with VB

Before .Net 2.0 the only way that you could use a generic type was to use System.Object. Although it’s been 4 years since the release of .Net 2.0 I still see developers using the System.Object way too often, which leads to unnecessary boxing/unboxing and casting. So in this article I’m going to explain how you can use Generics in your classes and methods. What are Generics? I entitled this article “Go for the Generic brand” because outside the world of programming the term generic means something that is not tied to a particular brand name. You may buy a bottle … Continue reading Go for the Generic brand…