Developers (including you) benefit when you provide a string representation of your class. By implementing IFormattable, you can take control of this representation and provide some flexibility.

I previously blogged on the Apache Commons ToStringBuilder and discussed how it takes away much of the tedium normally associated with implementing toString methods. While implementing toString() does ...

You're debugging some code and you need to know the value of a string variable. You move your mouse over the variable and -- voila! -- a tooltip appears showing the value of the string. But, when you ...