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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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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Now, this is something that has stung me and every single one of my colleagues time and time again.. Imagine you have an interface called IMyConfiguration which has a get-only property: And the implementing class takes in a parameter called port in the constructor and sets the value of the property using a private setter …
As you most likely know already, there are ToLower() and ToUpper() methods on the String class in C#, but a method to convert a string to ‘Title Case’ is sadly missing. Support for this useful conversion exists in the TextInfo class which has a ToTitleCase method, but you can’t instantiate a new instance of the …
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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:
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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Stumbled upon an interesting question on StackOverflow today regarding what goes on under the hood when you use the switch statement in C#. Based on the answer by Brian Gideon (kudos for doing all that legwork!), for the following code: the C# compiler will: if the number of case statements is small then emit a …
= true! And here’s the proof.
We’ve all been there before, write a simple service with a simple method: As time goes by, the simple method gets more complicated, and the list of parameters grows and eventually simple method is overloaded to provide more variety and simple method is simple no more! A simple solution to this is the Request-Response pattern, …
By now, Windows 7 is almost old news and most of you would have been using or at least seen Windows 7 and one of the first things that should have caught your attention is the redesigned task bar. The new task bar are visually much more pleasant and functionally it has also introduced a …
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