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.Net Tips – How to determine if a type implements a generic interface type

When you have a generic interface such as: It’s easy to check whether a given instance implements the IInitializable interface with a specific T: But what if you want to find out if a type implements the IInitializable interface of an arbitrary T? You won’t be able to simply get away with this: Instead, you …

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Converting a binary string representation into binary array in C#

Stumbled across this question on StackOverflow the other day, definitely one for the interview! The question goes: How do you convert a string such as “01110100011001010111001101110100” to a byte array then used File.WriteAllBytes such that the exact binary string is the binary of the file. In this case it would be the the text “test”. …

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WCF – Be ware of the field ordering when using DataContractSerializer

One of the less known aspect of the DataContractSerializer is its dependency on the order in which fields are serialized and deserialized. As this article points out, the basic rules for ordering include: If a data contract type is a part of an inheritance hierarchy, data members of its base types are always first in …

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Enumerable.Append and Enumerable.Prepend extension methods

Another gem I found on StackOverflow today (I’ve been spending a lot of time there these last couple of days..), this time in the form of a question on how to append or prepend a single value to an IEnumerable<T>. Greg provided an elegant solution to this particular problem, and here’s his answer: Which you …

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.Net Tips – Restricting attribute usage to specific type

Before you get your hopes up, sorry, there’s no built-in support to allow you to restrict the usage of your attribute to a type easily. That’s not to say that it’s impossible though! If you’re reading this, I assume that you’ve tried to write a custom attribute yourself and realised that the options available in …

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