JavaScript
I'm editing a record in a web application and I accidentally click on something I shouldn't have. The page navigates away and when I hit back I see that all my changes have been lost. This still happens with an almost disturbing level of regularity, I
C#
Wouldn't advise this one in production code but if during testing you need to pull a random element from a pool of known good values you can quickly sort the pool by using array.OrderBy(arrayElement => Guid.NewGuid()); To see it in action just try something along
C#
If you need to pass a date to an MVC action method you should include it in a form and pass back the entire form as a single class. If for some reason this can't be done and you have a method with a signature similar to public
C#
Suppose you have a system where a user can upload a file and they can specify the name of the file, or where a file is automatically generated and the name is created based on certain properties. For instance, suppose a file is created and it's name will
C#
Time and time again when working with code that involves operations with the file system a developer may write something like var path = @"C:\Temp"; var file = @"file.txt"; var pathToFile = path + "\\" + file; // pathToFile = "C:\\Temp\\file.txt" In an ideal world
C#
EDIT Everything below is completely unnecessary in C#6, just use the nameof operator So instead of using any of the shenanigans and hacks below, simply write SelectList list = new SelectList(items, nameof(Id), nameof(Text)); Simples. Original article below for C#5 and under... There are many times when
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Not something that's needed very often but sometimes we can need to get an enum value from a string, perhaps a value returned from an API you have no control over. In general, parsing a string to an enum can be done using either (EnumType)Enum.Parse(typeof(