Partial Classes and Inheritance

Since VS2005 created the ability to use partial classes, the feature has been available to developers across the .NET community.  This post is to provide a quick description of using inheritance and an example I found it to be particularly useful.
According to Microsoft, partial classes are most useful in these scenarios:

When working on large projects, spreading [...]

Updating WCF Service Descriptions

I have been reading Michele Leroux Bustamante’s book on WCF as this is a topic that has been very interesting to me lately.  She has been a guest on .NET rocks and other interesting podcasts several times, and her jovial personality on air intrigued me as to what her books would be like. 
Her book (so [...]

Do Not Use the StringBuilder

I know there are plenty of people out there that will disagree with me, but I urge you to not use the .NET StringBuilder class in 99% of the cases you would be tempted or recommended to do so.  Here is why:
 The StringBuilder class does perform better than basic string concatenation.  However, it is really [...]