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Posts Tagged ‘static members’

The meaning of “this” on extension methods

Monday, May 4th, 2020

In the lesson about extension methods, we learned that they are a nice way of adding extra functionality to existing types, and we did that by adding a static method inside a static class, that took a type parameter prefixed with the this keyword, like this:


So, although my original Book class does not contain a method called SellBook(), I am able to call it inside the Main() method because I declared an extension method for the Book class, and this static SellBook() method took a Book type parameter prefixed with the this keyword, that signals the compiler that the method is intended as an extension method for the Book type.… Read more

Extension methods

Monday, May 4th, 2020

Sometimes, programmers find themselves in need of adding new functionality to already existing codes, in order to improve or complete them. If the said source code is available, the task is simple – they only need to add the required functionality and recompile.… Read more

Constants

Saturday, July 1st, 2017

Just like constants in mathematics, C# defines special fields of classes called constants. Like their name hints, once declared and initialized, constants maintain their values, forbidding their further modification.

There are two types of constants:

  • constants for which the value is set during the compilation (compile time constants)
  • constants which have their value set during the execution (run-time constants)

Compile time constants are declared using the C# modifier const:

A secret not many C# programmers know is that compile time constants are static fields, even if they do not contain the static keyword, and the compiler forbids its usage in the declaration.… Read more

Static members

Thursday, May 18th, 2017

As we saw in the previous recent lessons, the usual way of communicating with a class is to create instances (copies) of it, and then use the resulting objects. In fact, that is the strong advantage of the classes – the ability to create copies that can be used and can be modified individually.… Read more


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