Up until this point, I had mostly been using nHibernate for my ORM solution in most applications I work on. So when I started diving into Entity Framework (EF) models and trying to write unit tests against logic that lives in EF entities, I first encountered the ObjectSet<T> type. Now to be clear, I was not [...]
You may come across a time where you would like to submit a form using Ajax, and still want to preserve the useful model binding of MVC. Normally when you submit a form using a standard submit (non async), the MVC framework will automatically take care of pulling your values out of your form and populating [...]
I needed a way to escape special regex characters in a string. These characters include the following: ".", "$", "^", "{", "[", "(", "|", ")", "*", "+", "?", "\\" . This list was obtained from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4edbef7e(v=vs.110).aspx Here is a small string extension method that will accomplish this: Edit*- 1/24/13 - I didn't realize there was a built in [...]
I wanted to be able to select sequential elements from a list based on a specified predicate. I needed to be able to include or exclude the begin and end elements as well. Here is how I made use of Linqs skipWhile and takeWhile extensions to do this: Selecting matching elements, including the start and end [...]
