\nWelcome to CLR Week 2009.\nAs always, we start with a warm-up.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe \nWell,\nthis is the type of asymmetry you see in the world a lot.\nYou need a ticket for each person that attends a concert.\nIf you have too few tickets, they won’t let you in.\nIf you have too many,\nwell, that’s a bit wasteful, but you can still get in;\nthe extras are ignored.\nIf you create an array with 10 elements and use only the first five,\nnobody is going to raise an \nBesides, you probably don’t want this to be an error:\n<\/p>\n \nThink of the format string as a Welcome to CLR Week 2009. As always, we start with a warm-up. The String.Format method doesn’t throw a FormatException if you pass too many parameters, but it does if you pass too few. Why the asymmetry? Well, this is the type of asymmetry you see in the world a lot. You need a ticket for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-17163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Welcome to CLR Week 2009. As always, we start with a warm-up. The String.Format method doesn’t throw a FormatException if you pass too many parameters, but it does if you pass too few. Why the asymmetry? Well, this is the type of asymmetry you see in the world a lot. You need a ticket for […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}String.Format<\/code> method doesn’t throw a\nFormatException<\/code>\nif you pass too many parameters,\nbut it does if you pass too few.\nWhy the asymmetry?\n<\/p>\nArrayBiggerThanNecessary<\/code> exception.\nSimilarly, the\nString.Format<\/code> message doesn’t mind if you pass\ntoo many parameters; it just ignores the extras.\nThere’s nothing harmful about it, just a bit wasteful.\n<\/p>\n\nif (verbose) {\n format = \"{0} is not {1} (because of {2})\";\n} else {\n format = \"{0} not {1}\";\n}\nString.Format(format, \"Zero\", \"One\", \"Two\");\n<\/pre>\nSELECT<\/code> clause\nfrom the dataset provided by the remaining parameters.\nIf your table has fields ID<\/code> and NAME<\/code>\nand you select just the ID<\/code>, there’s nothing wrong\nwith that.\nBut if you ask for DATE<\/code>, then you have an error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"