StringBuilder

Back to Basics: Streamlining the StringBuilder

To get back in the habit of blogging I thought I’d start by trying to breathe some new life into one of the oldest pieces of the .NET Framework – the StringBuilder. A few years ago I wrote about an aspect of the StringBuilder class that’s often overlooked – it’s fluent interface. Back then I speculated that one reason the fluent interface is so rarely used is that virtually every StringBuilder example, including those on MSDN, fail to highlight it by using a more imperative style. (more…)

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