What does "in the rare cases when an identifier has no semantic meaning beyond its type" mean? [Noelle Mallory - MSFT] Please post questions to the MSDN Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn. You will likely get a quicker response throug...

Radar and scuba are acronyms , i.e., abbreviations that spell or are pronounced as a word. XML, IBM, and DoD are abbreviations. This topic is about abbreviations, whether or not they are also acronyms. Edit: I think to all intents and purposes, th...

System.ComponentModel interfaces: IChangeTracking http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.ichangetracking.aspxIRevertibleChangeTracking http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.irevertiblechangetracking.a...

Instead of creating an array property that is backed by an array field, consider making the property an ICollection to lessen the public contract and to remove the coupling between consumers and the privately used array type. If an indexer is actu...

// Auto-Impl Properties for trivial get and setpublic double TotalPurchases { get; set; }publicstring Name { get; set; }publicint CustomerID { get; set; }// Regular field public double TotalPurchases ; publicstring Name ;publicint Customer...