The enum, what a lovely creature available to us in C#. They help make our code more readable and bug-resistant. They also have some tricks up their sleeves.
Take a sample enum declaration:
public enum Level
{
Unknown = 0,
Low,
Medium,
High
}
If you want a string representation of an enum, you simply use the ToString() method.
Console.WriteLine(Level.Unknown.ToString());
/* output:
Unknown
*/
If you want the numeric [...]
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In the old days, we’d write something like this:
view.Rows.Add("Type");
view.Rows.Add("Count");
view.Rows.Add("Whatever");
With C# 3.0 we can do this:
new string[] { "Type", "Count", "Whatever" }
.ForEach(str => view.Rows.Add(str));
That is very cool syntatic sugar. Sure, this is not new news, but when you think about C# in the context of the new features available in 3.0, it [...]
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Like many, I use Google AdSense to host ads on my web sites. Including the ad code typically requires you to paste a block a block of JavaScript onto the page. I don’t mind injecting the JavaScript, but I wanted to come up with a better way.
The solution I came up with was a quick [...]
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