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Introduced in C# 8.0, the using-declaration language enhancement eliminates nested using-statements. The following code: using System.IO; class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var filename = “hello.txt”; using (var stream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Create)) { using (var writer = new StreamWriter(stream)) { writer.WriteLine(“Hello, World!”); } } } } is improved with using declarations to […]

Being sometimes required to call a particular method before an object is disposed emits a pungent code smell. In particular recently reviewed code, invoking an asynchronous Flush() method was sometimes necessary before a MyStream object was disposed, because asynchronous methods would be otherwise called from Dispose(), which does not wait for completion of those asynchronous […]

I inherited the responsibility of maintaining an internal development tool implemented in C#. I recently added new classes to extend the tool’s functionality. Several of the new classes uses several properties, and I found myself writing code similar to the following: class Shape { private int _width; private int _height; private bool _isVisible; public int […]