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Wrap on specfic characters during a S.D.Graphics.DrawString()

I needed a way to get the integral value of an System.Enum that is boxed. The solution wasn't immediately obvious after my experimentation mainly because: My enum was derived from byte (and I was trying to cast it to an int). My .Net jitsu wasn't up to scratch. Lucky thanks to a friendly guy called Guffa I managed to create generic solution. As it turns out you can unbox an enum value to its base type. As such the following can be unboxed to an uint. struct FoolishStruct : uint { Gluttony, Pride,...

Sometimes you just need a ternary statement, i.e. you don't want to return a value from the condition ? true : false construct. Here is an extension method to help you out (the usage example isn't the best). class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { List<string> test = new List<string>(); ArrayList source = new ArrayList(); source.Add(1); source.Add("hello"); source.Each<object>(x => (x is String).IfElse ( () => test.Add((string)x), () => test.Add(x.ToString())...

Funny this isn't in the provided Enumerable extension methods. In any case, here it is: internal static void Each<T>(this IEnumerable<T> @this, Action<T> action) { foreach(T t in @this) action(t); } internal static void Each<T>(this IEnumerable @this, Action<T> action) { foreach (object t in @this) if (t is T) { action((T)t); } } An example: objects.Each(x => DoSomethingFunky(x, "some parameter"));...

How to get a XmlTextWriter to make one of these bad boys: ">"

My XNA ROAM implementation.

Better shim for building 2008 projects on TFS Build Server 2005.

Async Webservices: The proper way.

One thing that I found missing was the ability to serialize objects directly into XElements with the new XML LinQ in .Net. I made a small solution to really bring power into the framework.