IsNumeric function in c#

I know it’s possible to check whether the value of a text box or variable is numeric using try/catch statements, but IsNumeric is so much simpler. One of my current projects requires recovering values from text boxes. Unfortunately, it is written in C#. I understand that there’s a way to enable the Visual Basic IsNumeric … Read more

Pass Method as Parameter using C#

You can use the Func delegate in .net 3.5 as the parameter in your RunTheMethod method. The Func delegate allows you to specify a method that takes a number of parameters of a specific type and returns a single argument of a specific type. Here is an example that should work:

Merge two (or more) lists into one, in C# .NET

You can use the LINQ Concat and ToList methods: Note that there are more efficient ways to do this – the above will basically loop through all the entries, creating a dynamically sized buffer. As you can predict the size to start with, you don’t need this dynamic sizing… so you could use: (AddRange is special-cased for ICollection<T> for efficiency.) I wouldn’t take this … Read more

How to convert code from C# to PHP

I know you’re hoping for someone who had experience but in case no one comes forward… You might consider just copy and pasting the code into a PHP script and checking what breaks. Write a parser to fix that, run it across the entire script, and see what’s the next thing that breaks. Continue until … Read more

How to easily initialize a list of Tuples?

c# 7.0 lets you do this: If you don’t need a List, but just an array, you can do: And if you don’t like “Item1” and “Item2”, you can do: or for an array: which lets you do: tupleList[0].Index and tupleList[0].Name Framework 4.6.2 and below You must install System.ValueTuple from the Nuget Package Manager. Framework 4.7 and above It is built … Read more

when do you need .ascx files and how would you use them?

It’s an extension for the User Controls you have in your project. A user control is a kind of composite control that works much like an ASP.NET Web page—you can add existing Web server controls and markup to a user control, and define properties and methods for the control. You can then embed them in ASP.NET Web … Read more