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// assign string from a string literal string s = "hello"; // assign string from an array of characters char[] chars = new char[] { 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o' }; string s = new string(chars, 0, chars.Length); // assign string from a char pointer, derived from a string string s; uns...

In order to be able to manage your projects' packages, you need the NuGet Package Manager. This is a Visual Studio Extension, explained in the official docs: Installing and Updating NuGet Client. Starting with Visual Studio 2012, NuGet is included in every edition, and can be used from: Tools ->...

When you right-click a project (or its References folder), you can click the "Manage NuGet Packages..." option. This shows the Package Manager Dialog.

Click the menus Tools -> NuGet Package Manager -> Package Manager Console to show the console in your IDE. Official documentation here. Here you can issue, amongst others, install-package commands which installs the entered package into the currently selected "Default project": Ins...

using System; using System.IO; using System.Linq; using System.Net.Http; using System.Threading.Tasks; class HttpGet { private static async Task DownloadAsync(string fromUrl, string toFile) { using (var fileStream = File.OpenWrite(toFile)) { using (va...

public class Model { public string Name { get; set; } public bool? Selected { get; set; } } Here we have a Class with no constructor with two properties: Name and a nullable boolean property Selected. If we wanted to initialize a List<Model>, there are a few different ways to ex...

6.0 Allows you to import a specific type and use the type's static members without qualifying them with the type name. This shows an example using static methods: using static System.Console; // ... string GetName() { WriteLine("Enter your name."); return ReadLine(); } ...

Notes: This example must be run in administrative mode. Only one simultaneous client is supported. For simplicity, filenames are assumed to be all ASCII (for the filename part in the Content-Disposition header) and file access errors are not handled. using System; using System.IO; using Syst...

Visual Studio helps manage user and application settings. Using this approach has these benefits over using the appSettings section of the configuration file. Settings can be made strongly typed. Any type which can be serialized can be used for a settings value. Application settings can be...

Starting from a new Settings class and custom configuration section: Add an application setting named ExampleTimeout, using the time System.Timespan, and set the value to 1 minute: Save the Project Properties, which saves the Settings tab entries, as well as re-generates the custom Settings cl...

A task can be created by directly instantiating the Task class... var task = new Task(() => { Console.WriteLine("Task code starting..."); Thread.Sleep(2000); Console.WriteLine("...task code ending!"); }); Console.WriteLine("Starting task..."); t...

Structs inherit from System.ValueType, are value types, and live on the stack. When value types are passed as a parameter, they are passed by value. Struct MyStruct { public int x; public int y; } Passed by value means that the value of the parameter is copied for the method, and any...

Type constraints are able to force a type parameter to implement a certain interface or class. interface IType; interface IAnotherType; // T must be a subtype of IType interface IGeneric<T> where T : IType { } // T must be a subtype of IType class Generic<T> where T...

It is possible to specify whether or not the type argument should be a reference type or a value type by using the respective constraints class or struct. If these constraints are used, they must be defined before all other constraints (for example a parent type or new()) can be listed. // TRef mus...

By using the new() constraint, it is possible to enforce type parameters to define an empty (default) constructor. class Foo { public Foo () { } } class Bar { public Bar (string s) { ... } } class Factory<T> where T : new() { public T Create() { re...

Unlike an expression lambda, a statement lambda can contain multiple statements separated by semicolons. delegate void ModifyInt(int input); ModifyInt addOneAndTellMe = x => { int result = x + 1; Console.WriteLine(result); }; Note that the statements are enclosed in braces {}. ...

It is possible to use multiple nested using statements without added multiple levels of nested braces. For example: using (var input = File.OpenRead("input.txt")) { using (var output = File.OpenWrite("output.txt")) { input.CopyTo(output); } // output is ...

public class SingletonClass { public static SingletonClass Instance { get; } = new SingletonClass(); private SingletonClass() { // Put custom constructor code here } } Because the constructor is private, no new instances of SingletonClass can be made by consum...

SpeechRecognitionEngine recognitionEngine = new SpeechRecognitionEngine(); GrammarBuilder builder = new GrammarBuilder(); builder.Append(new Choices("I am", "You are", "He is", "She is", "We are", "They are")); builder.Append(new Choices...

string helloWorld = "hello world, how is it going?"; string[] parts1 = helloWorld.Split(','); //parts1: ["hello world", " how is it going?"] string[] parts2 = helloWorld.Split(' '); //parts2: ["hello", "world,", "how", "is&qu...