String Interpolation

String Interpolation is an interesting method of being able to access properties directly within a string. Once upon a time in order to include properties into a string you would have to do something like this : int age = 16; string mystr = "My age is" + age.ToString(); Essentially a string concatenation and then returning other types as a string. Then we had string.Format which I thought it was fantastic with the autoconversion of types to string - so we had something like this: string.Format("My age is {0}", age); Now, this was very handy...

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Null Conditional Operators

I cannot count the number of times that I've faced exception caused by running into a null. This then leads to code using the if{} blocks or using the short hand "?" on almost all of your variables. In C# 6.0 specification a null conditional operator. The null conditional operator allows you to check for the instance of a null and replace a returned value or to return a value. For example : If you have a simple class such as a Person : public class person { public string Name {get;set;} public int Age {get; set;} } and you instantiate...

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