August 10, 2002

You often need to benchmark a piece of code, which you usually do as follows: Dim start As Date = Now’ insert here the code to benchmarkDim elapsed As TimeSpan

At times you may need to process elements of an array, a collection, or a dictionary object in random order, for example when sampling a population or (more often) when

The For Each loop always iterates orderly on all the elements of an array or a collection (more precisely, on all the elements of a class that implements the IEnumerable

By default, when an unhandled exception occurs in a managed application, a dialog box appears that asks you whether you want to debug the application with one of the debuggers

The .NET framework lets you create two types of “empty” arrays: unitialized arrays and arrays that are initialized with zero elements. Uninitialized arrays are actually array variables that are set