http://www.elberon5.com/typo/ en-us 40 elberon5.com comments String.IsNullOrEmpty() sounds like what you need, gentooflux Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:38:17 CDT http://www.elberon5.com/typo/articles/2007/04/27/coalesce-in-c#comment-5 http://www.elberon5.com/typo/articles/2007/04/27/coalesce-in-c#comment-5 I've been looking around for overloading for this one, I'm not sure it's possible since it's technically a logical operator and those can't be overloaded. Reason for that though is that while a null test works for most classes, I know I'm usually looking for either null or string.Empty when it comes to strings, so it'd be nice to overload coalesce to watch for that as well. Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:01:36 CDT http://www.elberon5.com/typo/articles/2007/04/27/coalesce-in-c#comment-4 http://www.elberon5.com/typo/articles/2007/04/27/coalesce-in-c#comment-4 Looks like someone's been doing a lot of event bubbling. I'm jealous of you and your ability to use snippets in your IDE, being myself hopelessly tied to vs.net 2003. I've been making a lot of classes lately (complete with custom exceptions), and having to write out the full syntax for properties is killing my carpal tunnel. I have snippets in Emacs for my Ruby code, but then, are snippets really all that necessary in Ruby? Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:43:08 CDT http://www.elberon5.com/typo/articles/2007/04/20/snippets#comment-3 http://www.elberon5.com/typo/articles/2007/04/20/snippets#comment-3 It works for SQL Server Management Studio Express as well. Mon, 9 Apr 2007 16:49:09 CDT http://www.elberon5.com/typo/articles/2007/04/03/shortcut-of-the-day#comment-2 http://www.elberon5.com/typo/articles/2007/04/03/shortcut-of-the-day#comment-2 Best program ever. Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:42:50 CDT http://www.elberon5.com/typo/articles/2007/02/21/great-tool-winmerge#comment-1 http://www.elberon5.com/typo/articles/2007/02/21/great-tool-winmerge#comment-1