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Double Quotes inside verbatim strings can be escaped by using 2 sequential double quotes "" to represent one double quote " in the resulting string. var str = @"""I don't think so,"" he said."; Console.WriteLine(str); Output: "I don't think s...

Expression-bodied function members allow the use of lambda expressions as member bodies. For simple members, it can result in cleaner and more readable code. Expression-bodied functions can be used for properties, indexers, methods, and operators. Properties public decimal TotalPrice => Base...

Introduction Properties can be initialized with the = operator after the closing }. The Coordinate class below shows the available options for initializing a property: 6.0 public class Coordinate { public int X { get; set; } = 34; // get or set auto-property with initializer public ...

The ?. operator and ?[...] operator are called the null-conditional operator. It is also sometimes referred to by other names such as the safe navigation operator. This is useful, because if the . (member accessor) operator is applied to an expression that evaluates to null, the program will throw ...

By definition, the short-circuiting boolean operators will only evaluate the second operand if the first operand can not determine the overall result of the expression. It means that, if you are using && operator as firstCondition && secondCondition it will evaluate secondCondition ...

When a type is defined without a constructor: public class Animal { } then the compiler generates a default constructor equivalent to the following: public class Animal { public Animal() {} } The definition of any constructor for the type will suppress the default constructor genera...

public class Animal { public string Name { get; set; } public Animal() : this("Dog") { } public Animal(string name) { Name = name; } } var dog = new Animal(); // dog.Name will be set to "Dog" by default. var cat = new Ani...

A static constructor is called the first time any member of a type is initialized, a static class member is called or a static method. The static constructor is thread safe. A static constructor is commonly used to: Initialize static state, that is state which is shared across different instan...

A constructor of a base class is called before a constructor of a derived class is executed. For example, if Mammal extends Animal, then the code contained in the constructor of Animal is called first when creating an instance of a Mammal. If a derived class doesn't explicitly specify which constru...

<Foo> <Dog/> </Foo> public class Foo { // Using XmlElement [XmlElement(Name="Dog")] public Animal Cat { get; set; } }

<Store> <Articles> <Product/> <Product/> </Articles> </Store> public class Store { [XmlArray("Articles")] public List<Product> Products {get; set; } }

public class Dog { private const string _birthStringFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"; [XmlIgnore] public DateTime Birth {get; set;} [XmlElement(ElementName="Birth")] public string BirthString { get { return Birth.ToString(_birthStringFormat); } ...

string requestUri = "http://www.example.com"; string responseData; HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(parameters.Uri); WebResponse response = request.GetResponse(); using (StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())) { ...

string requestUri = "http://www.example.com"; string responseData; using (var client = new WebClient()) { responseData = client.DownloadString(requestUri); }

HttpClient is available through NuGet: Microsoft HTTP Client Libraries. string requestUri = "http://www.example.com"; string responseData; using (var client = new HttpClient()) { using(var response = client.GetAsync(requestUri).Result) { response.EnsureSuccessStatus...

string requestUri = "http://www.example.com"; string requestBodyString = "Request body string."; string contentType = "text/plain"; string requestMethod = "POST"; HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(requestUri) { Method = reque...

string requestUri = "http://www.example.com"; string requestBodyString = "Request body string."; string contentType = "text/plain"; string requestMethod = "POST"; byte[] responseBody; byte[] requestBodyBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(requestBodyS...

HttpClient is available through NuGet: Microsoft HTTP Client Libraries. string requestUri = "http://www.example.com"; string requestBodyString = "Request body string."; string contentType = "text/plain"; string requestMethod = "POST"; var request = new ...

The finally { ... } block of a try-finally or try-catch-finally will always execute, regardless of whether an exception occurred or not (except when a StackOverflowException has been thrown or call has been made to Environment.FailFast()). It can be utilized to free or clean up resources acquired i...

var numbers = new[] {1,2,3,4,5}; var lastNumber = numbers.LastOrDefault(); Console.WriteLine(lastNumber); //5 var lastEvenNumber = numbers.LastOrDefault(n => (n & 1) == 0); Console.WriteLine(lastEvenNumber); //4 var lastNegativeNumber = numbers.LastOrDefault(n => n < 0); Con...