CSharp - Part 3

C# Tips and Tricks #6 – Find the Application Path in Console Applicati...

January 3, 2019 no comments

There are times when you are working on a console application in C# and you might want to get the application path. You might notice that the Application.StartupPath would not be available in console...

C# Tips and Tricks #5 – Enumerate an enum in C#

January 2, 2019 no comments

You can easily enumerate an enum in C# using the Enum.GetValues static method which returns the array. How to enumerate an enum in C# ? public enum Movie { Viswasam, Sarkar, Petta, Kaththi } For exam...

C# Tips and Tricks #4 – Using Zip method in C# to add Integers a...

January 1, 2019 no comments

Zip method in C# in an interesting extension method that lets the developers to join together two array sequences (IEnumerable). It just processes each element in the 2 IEnumerable collections togeth...

C# Blog Posts from December 2016 to January 2018

April 1, 2018 no comments

HOW TO RETURN JSON INSTEAD OF XML IN ASP.NET WEB API WHEN USING CHROME ? MISSINGMETHODEXCEPTION ‘XAMARIN.FORMS.DEVICE.GET_RUNTIMEPLATFORM’ IN XAMARIN.ANDROID USING CONDITIONAL COMPILATION IN XAMARIN ...

How to return JSON instead of XML in ASP.NET Web API when using Chrome...

May 29, 2017 no comments

When using the ASP.NET Web API in Google Chrome , there are times when you see the XML output instead of JSON. You might want to request JSON data so that you can view it in the browser. How to retur...

How to read the entire contents of a file to a string variable in C# ?...

March 10, 2017 no comments

There are several ways in which you can read a text file in to a string variable in C#. One of the simple ways to achieve it is using the ReadAllText method of the File class. How to read the entire ...

How to calculate difference between two dates in C# ?

March 10, 2017 no comments

There are times when you might to calculate the difference between two days in C# and get the number of days as result. How to calculate difference between two dates in C# ? Assuming both the start d...

C# Tips and Tricks #1 – Get the Total Number of Items in an Enum...

February 15, 2017 no comments

You can get the total number of items defined in an enum in C# using the combination of the Enum.GetNames method and the Length property. How to get the Total Number of Items in an Enum in C# ? The s...

How to Convert an Image to Byte Array in C# ?

November 4, 2016 no comments

You can convert an Bitmap image to byte array in C# using the BinaryReader’s ReadByte method. Here are the steps that you need to follow for the conversion. – Create an instance of the FileStr...

C# 7.0 : Pattern Matching

October 10, 2016 no comments

In one of the previous blog post , we saw the Out variables enhancements in C# 7.0. This blog post will explain one of the new features in C# 7.0 called Pattern matching and how developers can levera...

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How to Convert a string to Title Case in C# ?

Assume that you have a string in C# and you want to have a mixture of both the upper case and the lowercase (i meant TitleCase in this example). You can do that easily using the ToTitleCase method defined in the TextInfo class. How to Convert a strin... How to Convert a string to Title Case in C# ?