There is not much that I like about c#, but one thing that is really
handy is the #region ... #endregion statements which allow labelling
and collapsing/expanding of code blocks - it is just for editing and
display purposes but is very useful when you have a lot of lines of
code in one function (I know, I know, you shouldn't have lots of...).

2010/1/4 Alex Rufon <[email protected]>:
> My sentiments exactly.
>
> An in-house joke that we have here in the office is that if you need to dig 
> into the MSDN library for something ... better bring a backhoe ...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raul Miller
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:17 AM
> To: Programming forum
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] C# .NET COM JDLLServer
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Matthew Brand <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> I would never claim to know what I am doing wrt to sockets (I barely
>> understand them) but I got the c# loop from:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.sockets.socket.aspx
>
> In my experience, microsoft's documentation seems to be written,
> quite often, by people that have no idea what the systems in
> question are supposed to be used for.
>
> I have seen important issues go unmentioned.  I have seen code that
> takes 30+ lines to do something that could have been done in one
> or two I have seen documentation which adds nothing which could not
> have been gleaned from the names of the things being documented.
> Etc.
>
> I would not assume that their example code is bullet proof.  Most
> likely the original author ran it through one test case and went
> on to document something else.
>
> --
> Raul
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