Even if you're not working in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, .NET provides you with a way to create a read-only collection or to convert an existing List into a read-only collection. I had a client ...

The FrozenSet and FrozenDictionary classes introduced in .NET 8 are immutable collections optimized for fast look-ups. Here’s how to take advantage of them. Developers often grapple with the available ...

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Take advantage of read-only generic interfaces such as IReadOnlyList, IReadOnlyDictionary, and IReadOnlyCollection to prevent modifications to collections in your .NET Core applications. A collection ...

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Collections provide a way to store arbitrary objects in a structured fashion, and we all know how useful they are in everyday programming. The .NET class library offers an embarrassment of collection ...