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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 ...
Code can and should throw exceptions in exceptional circumstances. Examples of this include: Attempting to read past the end of a stream Not having necessary permissions to access a file Attempting to perform an invalid operation, such as dividing by zero A timeout occurring when downloading a...
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 persons = new[] { new {Id = 1, Name = "Foo"}, new {Id = 2, Name = "Bar"}, new {Id = 3, Name = "Fizz"}, new {Id = 4, Name = "Buzz"} }; var names = persons.Select(p => p.Name); Console.WriteLine(string.Join(",", names....
var numbers = new[] {1,2,3,4,5}; Console.WriteLine(numbers.Contains(3)); //True Console.WriteLine(numbers.Contains(34)); //False
var numbers1to5 = new[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; var numbers4to8 = new[] {4, 5, 6, 7, 8}; var numbers1to8 = numbers1to5.Concat(numbers4to8); Console.WriteLine(string.Join(",", numbers1to8)); //1,2,3,4,5,4,5,6,7,8 Note that duplicates are kept in the result. If this is undesirable, use...
var numbers = new[] {1,2,3,4,5}; var lastNumber = numbers.Last(); Console.WriteLine(lastNumber); //5 var lastEvenNumber = numbers.Last(n => (n & 1) == 0); Console.WriteLine(lastEvenNumber); //4 The following throws InvalidOperationException: var lastNegativeNumber = numbers.Last(n...
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...
var oneNumber = new[] {5}; var theOnlyNumber = oneNumber.SingleOrDefault(); Console.WriteLine(theOnlyNumber); //5 var numbers = new[] {1,2,3,4,5}; var theOnlyNumberSmallerThanTwo = numbers.SingleOrDefault(n => n < 2); Console.WriteLine(theOnlyNumberSmallerThanTwo); //1 var theOnl...
var numbers = new[] {1,2,3,4,5}; var firstNumber = numbers.FirstOrDefault(); Console.WriteLine(firstNumber); //1 var firstEvenNumber = numbers.FirstOrDefault(n => (n & 1) == 0); Console.WriteLine(firstEvenNumber); //2 var firstNegativeNumber = numbers.FirstOrDefault(n => n < ...

Any

Returns true if the collection has any elements that meets the condition in the lambda expression: var numbers = new[] {1,2,3,4,5}; var isNotEmpty = numbers.Any(); Console.WriteLine(isNotEmpty); //True var anyNumberIsOne = numbers.Any(n => n == 1); Console.WriteLine(anyNumberIsOne); //Tr...

All

var numbers = new[] {1,2,3,4,5}; var allNumbersAreOdd = numbers.All(n => (n & 1) == 1); Console.WriteLine(allNumbersAreOdd); //False var allNumbersArePositive = numbers.All(n => n > 0); Console.WriteLine(allNumbersArePositive); //True Note that the All method functions by che...
For classes, interfaces, delegate, array, nullable (such as int?) and pointer types, default(TheType) returns null: class MyClass {} Debug.Assert(default(MyClass) == null); Debug.Assert(default(string) == null); For structs and enums, default(TheType) returns the same as new TheType(): struct...
The readonly keyword is a field modifier. When a field declaration includes a readonly modifier, assignments to that field can only occur as part of the declaration or in a constructor in the same class. The readonly keyword is different from the const keyword. A const field can only be initialized...
Enumerable.Select returns an output element for every input element. Whereas Enumerable.SelectMany produces a variable number of output elements for each input element. This means that the output sequence may contain more or fewer elements than were in the input sequence. Lambda expressions passe...
This method takes the first n elements from an enumerable. var numbers = new[] {1,2,3,4,5}; var threeFirstNumbers = numbers.Take(3); Console.WriteLine(string.Join(",", threeFirstNumbers.ToArray())); //1,2,3
var numbers = new[] {1,2,3,4,5}; var sameNumbers = new[] {1,2,3,4,5}; var sameNumbersInDifferentOrder = new[] {5,1,4,2,3}; var equalIfSameOrder = numbers.SequenceEqual(sameNumbers); Console.WriteLine(equalIfSameOrder); //True var equalIfDifferentOrder = numbers.SequenceEqual(sameNumbersInDi...

Max

var numbers = new[] {1,2,3,4}; var maxNumber = numbers.Max(); Console.WriteLine(maxNumber); //4 var cities = new[] { new {Population = 1000}, new {Population = 2500}, new {Population = 4000} }; var maxPopulation = cities.Max(c => c.Population); Console.WriteLine(maxPopu...
var numbers = new[] {1,2,3,4}; var averageNumber = numbers.Average(); Console.WriteLine(averageNumber); // 2,5 This method calculates the average of enumerable of numbers. var cities = new[] { new {Population = 1000}, new {Population = 2000}, new {Population = 4000} }; v...

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