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Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind

Skyler — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:35:18 +0000

Website accessibility is sadly an overlooked design element causing millions of users to have the inability to perform common tasks. Tasks including attending online classes, paying bills, doing taxes, and ordering a pizza are all real-world examples that resulted in legal action. Unfortunately, it seems many sites design and develop first then add accessibility later.…

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How To Display the Build Date of a .NET Application

Benjamin Michaelis — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:24:41 +0000

Displaying Your Build Date Recently, I was working on EssentialCSharp.com, and I wanted to display the build date on the website. This addition allows C# developers to see the version of the site that was live and helps visitors know the site is monitored and current. I recalled a previous IntelliTect blog post on displaying…

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Demystifying Coding Guidelines: Intro to Coding Conventions

Kevin Bost — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:54:44 +0000

Why Developing Coding Standards for Your Team Matters Programmers spend a lot of time reading code. Estimates of the percentage of daily tasks vary, but all results show that the time allocated to reading code is several times larger than the amount of time spent writing code. Conceptually, this makes sense. With the sheer amount…

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Tuple Trouble: Why C# Tuples Get to Break Guidelines

Mark Michaelis — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 19:19:49 +0000

Trouble With Tuples Back in the August 2017 issue of MSDN Magazine I wrote an in-depth article on C# 7.0 and its support for tuples (msdn.com/magazine/mt493248). At the time I glossed over the fact that the tuple type introduced with C# 7.0 (internally of type ValueTuple<…>) breaks several guidelines of a well-structured value type, namely:…

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Guidelines for Exception Handling in C#

Mark Michaelis — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 12:56:43 +0000

Best Practices for Exception Handling The following is a list of C# Exceptions Handling Guidelines taken from Essential C# by Mark Michaelis. Exception handling provides much-needed structure to the error-handling mechanisms that preceded it. However, it can still lead to some unwieldy results if used haphazardly. The following guidelines offer some best practices for exception…

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When to Use and Not Use Variable Type var in C#

Tom — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 21:39:05 +0000

Settling the Debate Surrounding var and C# Many languages, particularly scripting languages, have a loosely typed variable type named var. In these languages, var can hold any type of data. If you place a number into a var then it will be interpreted as a number whenever possible. If you enter text it will be…

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