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 ...

Practical .NET Move Beyond Factory Methods with the Builder Pattern in C#/Visual Basic When your objects get sufficiently complicated to create, it's time to simplify your life by moving to the ...

The C# programming language provides support for both virtual and abstract methods, each of which has distinct advantages. You use virtual methods to implement late ...

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 ...