Take advantage of nullable types to assign 'no values' or 'null values' to value types when there is no value available The C# language provides support for two types of data: value types and ...

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Anonymous types are a new feature of Visual Basic 9 (2008). They provide a quick and easy way to define simple classes for holding values. Both VB 9 and C# 3.0 provide support for anonymous types, but ...

I haven't had the pleasure of working with 2.0 much yet, so, I figured I'd give nullable types a shot.<BR><BR>Scenario:<BR><BR>Stored Proc reads a record out of databse into a datareader. One ...

Besides support for nullable types, a beta of TypeScript 2.0 is now available that includes a smoother way of working with declaration files and makes module declarations more efficient. A beta ...