Stackoverflow-driven C# FAQ

This is a collection of C# questions of interest from stackoverflow. There's a load more on the C# tag, this is just a small scraping.

• Hidden features of C#. This includes some interesting ones including chaining the null-coalescing operator and aliased generics
• What's the stack and what's the heap
• The heap and the stack in .NET
• Real world examples of tree structures
• The difference between i++ and ++i
• A beginners guide to bit shifting
• A good reason to use underscores for your private member variables
• How much should you #region your code
• Pros and conns of using the var keyword
• One line versus two line if statements. My view: I generally prefer the readability of #2 and I've never tripped up from commenting out. However if the line is short enough I stick to #1.
• The difference between a struct (ValueType) and a class (reference type) and another and when to use a struct
• Abstract class or interface
• Re-throwing exceptions
• Are .NET exceptions slow?
• Get or set a value using the member variable or the public property?
• Should I use the 'this' keyword eg: this.Property = 1; or Property = 1;?
• Parsing figures such as $10,000.50 into a decimal
• Fundamental data structures in C#
• A long list of LINQ implementations including LINQ-to-Amazon, LINQ-to-LDAP, LINQ-to-JSON
• C# Threading guides
• STA and MTA threading explained and another variation
• String concatentation performance in C#/.NET
• Difference between out and ref
• Error logging frameworks in C#/.NET
• Readonly versus const
• The memory limit of a .NET 3.5 process
• Using 'as' instead of casting
• Double or Decimal for storing monetary values and Is double really unsuitable for money
• Little known attributes in C#
• Unicode for developers
• Dummy's guide to Unicode
• Why does "abcd".StartsWith("") == true?
• Math.Round and banker's rounding in .NET (why does it round up sometimes?) and Math.Round rounding up.
• Property or method?
• Public fields or properties and another variation

A good summary question can be found 'Questions every good .NET developer should be able to answer?'