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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.Net Tips – Finding the time in a given TimeZone

You can find the current time in a different time zone using the TimeZoneInfo class. To find all the available system time zones: From the returned values you can see the So, if I want to find out what the time is in Amsterdam: I can do this to get the time in HH:mm:ss format:

WCF – Data Contract version round-tripping using IExtensibleDataObject

With WCF, provided that you’re using the DataContractSerializer and not the NetDataContractSerializer, you have a certain degree of protection against data contract changes from the client’s perspective. Existing contracts will still work if existing members are not removed from the data contract, which means you are free to add new members to the data contract …

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WCF – Using the NetDataContractSerializer to share your type

DataContractSerializer For those of your who are familiar with WCF you would no doubt know about the DataContractSerializer class, the DataContractSerializer does not include the CLR type information in the serialized XML, which allows for loose coupling between the client and server because they don’t have to share the same CLR types. However, this also …

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