Follow the rules to more effective C# programming

For C# programmers, no single function generates more discussion and more confusion than GetHashCode(). Hash-based containers use hash codes to optimize searches. In .NET, every object has a hash code that is established based on three specific rules. This chapter from Bill Wagner's Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, explains how those three rules are applied and how their proper application is essential to effective C# programming.

Title: Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#
Author: Bill Wagner
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Chapter 10: Understand the Pitfalls of GetHashCode()
ISBN: 0321245660; December 3, 2004; Copyright 2005
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