LINQ: Select an object, but change some properties without creating a new object
Q: Using LINQ, if I wanted to perform some query and return the object from the query, but change only some of the properties in that object, how would I do this without creating a new object and...
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Sometimes ASP.NET output caching doesn’t do the trick and you need to implement data caching to avoid trips to the database or to external API’s. Data caching is pretty simple- check the cache via a...
View ArticleParse the Domain from a URL String with a C# Extension Method
Many times I’ll need to parse the domain name, including the http[s]:// from a URL. Yet there’s no straightforward way to get it using the Uri class. This is especially useful when writing custom...
View ArticleTruncate HTML String C# Extension Method
My client, a super-huge pharmaceutical company, gave me a particularly good challenge: take a string of HTML and truncate it to a maximum amount of characters, keeping only whole words and all markup....
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