Keyboard shortcuts poster

Just found that the team at Microsoft has published a printable list of keyboard shortcuts for Visual Studio 2010. I have downloaded my copy for C#, and it will be on my desk by the morning. Don't doubt, this is a must have no matter how much time you spend with Visual Studio IDE. You can download them here. Choose the file and format for your favorite language. If you are using Visual Studio 2008 and missed the poster, you can download the keyboard shortcuts poster for C# here and VB here. Don't miss ...

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Null-coalescing operator in C#

This is the first time I seriously took an opportunity to look at null-coalescing operator in C#. Introduced in C# 2.0, this is one cool operator that I have hardly put into practice. Well, until now but not anymore. :) Null-coalescing operator is used to define a default value for nullable types as well as reference types. Let's look at an example. loginName = loginName ?? "guest"; What we are doing here is using the null-coalescing operator to check whether "loginName" is null. If it is null, the default value "guest" is assigned to it. This...

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