You might often want to validate parameters in your methods to ensure they have valid data. Most importantly, you might often want to protect your publicly exposed API methods by ensuring that the ...

Microsoft introduced support for named and optional parameters in C# 4.0. While a named parameter is used to specify an argument based on the name of the argument and not the position, an optional ...

Optional and named parameters were added to the C# language for COM and Office interoperability, but these features are actually useful in a variety of ways. This month I'm going to explore two ...

Several classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) provide both synchronous and asynchronous method signatures. Because a synchronous method call can create a delay in program flow, an ...