Stumbled across this question on StackOverflow the other day, definitely one for the interview! The question goes:

How do you convert a string such as “01110100011001010111001101110100” to a…

One of the less known aspect of the DataContractSerializer is its dependency on the order in which fields are serialized and deserialized.

With WCF, provided that you’re using the DataContractSerializer and not the NetDataContractSerializer, you have a certain degree of protection against data contract changes from the client’s perspective.

Another gem I found on StackOverflow today (I’ve been spending a lot of time there these last couple of days..), this time in the form of a question on how to append or prepend a single value to an IEnumerable<T>.

Whilst most C# developer would know that in C# the string type is equivalent to the System.String type because string is simply an alias for the System.String type. There are other framework defined alias like string, such as int for…

Yet another useful method on the Enumerable class, the SequenceEqual method does exactly what it says on the tin and tells you whether or not two sequences are of equal length and their corresponding elements are equal…

Another good question on StackOverflow, and even better answer from Steven (miles better than what I managed!), the question was around how to implement an extension method to check whether a certain method has a particular attribute applied to it…

As you most likely know already, there are ToLower() and ToUpper() methods on the String class in C#, but a method to convert a string to ‘Title Case’ is sadly missing.