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Being a "nice" programmer

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:16:02 GMT

Being a C# developer by trade, I naturally spend a lot of my working life programming computers. Whilst I by no-means profess to be a "guru" of any kind, I do notice that there is one aspect of software development that is often neglected from discussion, and most programmers will hopefully agree with me as I explain.

Enum TryParse Extension Method

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:25:39 GMT

TryParse method is very helpful if you need to convert string representation of a value to a value itself. TryParse is better than Parse method because it doesn't throw any exceptions and just returns a Boolean value to indicate weather the parsing was successful. Surprisingly there is no TryParse method available to use for Enum and this is where extension method can be extremely useful.

To Extension Method

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:16:09 GMT

Many times you find yourself having to convert the type of an object to another. The ToString() method is probably one of the most usefull methods, it's great for easy conversion of objects to string, but what if you want to do it the other way round.