C#
Back in the good old days, C# was .NET was Windows. Sure there were antique languages like VB.NET and ivory tower academia from F# but real developers used C# and the language was just fine as it was. Sure, some additions helped, generics were ok even if they did
C#
One of biggest trends in the last few years is functional programming, once again proving that fashion goes in circles. Immutability is a central tenet of functional programming, the idea is that variables are not variable, once an object is created it does not change. If you need to modify
C#
There have always been a few different ways of dealing with strings of text in C#, depending on what we need we might use any of the following; string normalString = "This is a string, to include a line break we need to escape it like this \n so it
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The .NET Framework has been updated to 4.6.2 (full announcement here) and it has one feature that is definitely worth shouting from the rooftops about. In this release, we extended the CLR debugging APIs to enable the debugger to request more information and perform additional analysis when a
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Update: C#7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 both now support async Main methods! Async code is awesome, that's just science. But when you introduce it to a codebase it tends to bubble all the way back up to your entry point If you're calling
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In .NET an enum is a type used to denote a complete set of simple constants. A simple example being the System.DayOfWeek enumeration. Enums can be decorated with the Flagsattribute which means that they can be combined. For instance, we may have an enumeration listing different pets that a
.NET Core
Note This entry has been updated and republished to account for the breaking changes which have taken place in the vNext (now DNVM) project .NET has gone open source! It''s now possible to build and run .NET applications on OSX and Linux. To install and run ASP
F#
Over the last year I have heard more and more about F#, a functional language for the .Net platform. A great resource for getting to know the language is F# for Fun and Profit What is Functional Programming? Imperative and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) treat computation as a series of statements
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In some C based languages such as C++, Java or Javascript any leading zeros at the start of a number will cause that number to be treated as octal (base 8). This peculiar issue can occur in templating or anything else where a text input will be treated as a
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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(