Tag: Syntax

It’s almost two years since I published the post on the Visual Studio IDE information message: “delegate invocation can be simplified.”

It is now the second most visited article on my blog!

While reviewing some error messages in a new MVC project, I recently learnt something equally as simple and eye-opening. This time, the suggestion is:

IDE0018 Variable declaration can be inlined

When you have worked with the same technology day-in, day-out for almost 15 years, it’s easy to miss some of the “under-the-radar” changes that are made without any fan-fare. This, for me, is one of those in C#.

I couldn’t tell you how many times a day I write code similar to the following, which is a staple of object-oriented, event-driven programming – used to fire an event if something is listening to it: