Jon Skeet Profile
C# MVP currently living in Reading and working for Clearswift in C#, Java, C and C++.
This user has contributed 5 articles, 1 code samples and posted 3 messages in our discussion forums.
Technology Interests
Blogs-
C#, .NET, Java, software development etc 
Articles & Tutorials-
Many people have become fairly confused about how parameters are passed in C#, particularly with regard to reference types. This article gives an in-depth discussion of the differences between default/ref/out parameters.. -
Almost every time exceptions are mentioned in mailing lists and newsgroups, people say they're really expensive, and should be avoided in almost all situations. Jon Skeet examines the claim.. -
A lot of confusion has been wrought by people explaining the difference between value types and reference types as 'value types go on the stack, reference types go on the heap'. This is simply untrue (as stated) and this article attempts to clarify matters somewhat. . -
The System.String type (shorthand string in C#) is one of the most important types in .NET, and unfortunately it's much misunderstood. This article attempts to deal with some of the basics including interning, literals and encoding.. -
An introduction to the murky world of Unicode and character encodings..
Code Samples-
How to read binary data from a file in C# - the right way!.
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