Last week a co worker of mine who wanted to remain anonymous, ran into the weirdest problem. She tried to use the “find in files” option in Visual Studio 2005 and even though the searched expression was out there in one of the files, she got the following result: “No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress.”

You can close Visual Studio, restart your computer or jump three times on one leg, but the problem remains. This is a very strange and odd bug, but fortunately there is a solution: press…

List<T>.Find() returns the first element found that matches a given criteria. So lets say we have List<int> and we use the Find method on it. What will be the returned value? If a number in the list matches the criteria it will be returned, but what if not? what does the variable zero contains after executing this code:

List<int> listOfInts = new List<int>(new int[] { 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9});
int zero = listOfInts.Find(
    delegate(int i)
    {
        return i == 0;
    });

It has the value of…