Tag Archives: syntax

Use the automatic code converters at developerFusion to convert C# code into Visual Basic, Ruby, and Python

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Rod Stephens

The developerFusion web site provides code converters that let you translate between C#, Visual Basic, Ruby, and Python. One of the most important uses for reflection is analyzing code to figure out what it does. Once you know what the … Continue reading →

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Implement interfaces explicitly or implicitly in C#

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Rod Stephens

Suppose you create a class and in the declaration you indicate that it implements one or more interfaces. If you right-click an interface’s name, the dropdown displayed by Visual Studio includes an “Implement Interface” submenu. If you look at the … Continue reading →

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Understand ways to end case blocks in C#

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Rod Stephens

There are several ways that you can exit case blocks in a switch statement. For example, consider the following code. string result = “”; int control = 1; switch (control) { case 1: case 2: result = “One or two”; … Continue reading →

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Understand region directives in C#

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Rod Stephens

Region directives let you define sections of code that you can collapse and expand by clicking the – and + signs to the left in the code window. Each region directive should have a corresponding endregion directive. You can include … Continue reading →

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Disable Visual Studio warnings in C#

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Rod Stephens

Visual Studio warnings let you know when your code contains something suspicious. For example, suppose you have XML documentation enabled. To enable XML documentation, open the Project menu and select Properties. On the Build tab, check the XML Documentation File … Continue reading →

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Extract comments from a group of files in C#

Posted on January 30, 2018 by RodStephens

I’m finishing up another book (I’ll announce it when it’s ready in a week or so) and I’m working through one of the thornier issues of any programming book: spell-checking code comments. I already have an example to extract comments … Continue reading →

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Cast arrays from one reference type to another in C#

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Rod Stephens

Every C# programmer knows that you can use a cast operator to convert one data type into another. For example, if the Employee class inherits from the Person class, then the following code creates an Employee object and then makes … Continue reading →

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Validate optional parameters in C#

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Rod Stephens

The example Use named and optional parameters in C# explains how to use named and optional parameters to let the calling code omit any combination of parameters. In many applications, you may not want to allow the user to omit … Continue reading →

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Use named and optional parameters in C#

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Rod Stephens

Optional parameters is one of the few additions in recent versions of Visual Studio that are really useful. I usually try to post examples in an older version of C# because it’s easier for someone to move an older example … Continue reading →

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Iterate over items in an array with unknown dimensions in C#

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example shows how you can iterate over the items in an array that has an unknown number of dimensions. When it starts, the program executes the following code. private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { string[, ,] values = … Continue reading →

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