ConcurrentBag is one of the thread-safe collection classes introduced in .NET 4.0. ConcurrentBag allows you to store objects in unordered way. Contrary to ConcurrentDictionary class, it allows you to store duplicate objects. ConcurrentBag allows multiple threads to store the objects. It is optimized for scenarios where same thread act as …
Action is one of the pre-built delegates in C# to store a method reference. The action delegate only accepts those methods that have a void return type. The action delegate has 16 overload methods that allow you to store a method reference that can accept up to 16 parameters. In …
Predicate is a pre-built delegate in the .NET framework class library. Delegates are used to store method which has same parameters and return types as specify in the delegate type. Predicate is a generic delegate. It takes one parameter and returns a boolean value. Predicate delegate is used for check whether a parameter meets …
In the Microsoft Framework class library, there are some built-in delegates. Action, Predicate, and Func are some of them. I have explained Action and Predicate in my previous posts. Action and predicate delegates have restrictions. The action delegate can only take parameters and does not return anything. A predicate delegate can …
C# Interface defines a group of related functionality. An interface defines only the definition of the functionality. All classes and structures which inherit from interface must implement the functionality defined in an interface. We can not create an instance of interface. In the interface declaration variable, we can only store the …
C# versions C# 1 comes in 2002 with .NET framework 1.0 and Visual Studio 2002 C# 2 comes in 2005 with .NET framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 C# 3 comes in 2008 with .NET framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2008 C# 4 comes in 2010 with .NET framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 C# …
Design patterns is an essential concept in software engineering. Every developer should know about Design patterns and how to apply these patterns in your project. Design Patterns are solutions to some common software design problems. These problems are the recurring design problems that software developers often faced during the development. Design patterns …
In Chain of Responsibility pattern, we create a chain of objects which handles a particular request. Each object contains a reference to his next object, if the object does not want to handle the request, it’s simply forward the request to next object handler. When a object is ready for handling the request, it’s does …
C# params allows you to design a method which accepts variable number of parameters. These parameters are stored in an array and available to called method. static void DoWork(params int[] arr) { if (arr != null) { foreach (var i in arr) { Console.WriteLine(i); } } } There are two ways …
This post is about difference between ref and out parameters. C# provides three keywords when you defining a method signature. These keywords are: params ref out By default, method arguments are passed by value. That means calling method pass a duplicate copy of data to the called method. If called …