C# Blogs by Alex Siepman

Lazy<T> property caching alternative

Lazy is a handy class, available since .NET 4.0. It has only one big disadvantage: if you use it to cache a property and it uses other members of the class, you need to implement the property in the constructor. An example:

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Generics
Lazy
Reflection
17-03-2014
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Enum to dictionary

In a previous project we stored the values of an enum in a database. That made it easy to fill listboxes and comboboxes. It also helps to ensure data integrity. Storing enums means a violations of the most important rule for developers: single point of definition.

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