Take advantage of best practices for using StringBuilder to reduce memory allocations and improve the performance of your string operations. Strings are immutable types in .NET. Whenever you modify a ...

One of the interesting features of the 8086 back in 1978 was the provision for “string” instructions. These took the form of prefixes that would repeat the next instruction a certain number of times.

The title says it all: how would you manipulate strings in C# without the system libraries? I got this question recently in an interview and I've been stumped by it since. It's one of those things I ...

String interpolation is a technique that enables you to insert expression values into literal strings. It is also known as variable substitution, variable interpolation, or variable expansion. It is a ...

I listened recently to a Channel 9 recording of Anders Hejlsberg, Brian Beckman, and Erik Meijer that caught me by surprise. Brian praised VB's dynamic features, yet said he used C# because it had ...