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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(