Extension Methods from James Michael Hare (BlackRabbitCoder)

• ToDictionary() - for enumerations of groupings

  Converts an IEnumerable> to a Dictionary> so that you can easily convert the results of a GroupBy clause to a Dictionary of Groupings.

  The out-of-the-box ToDictionary() LINQ extension methods require a key and element extractor which are largely redundant when being applied to an enumeration of groupings, so this is a short-cut.

  C# System.Collections.Generic.IGrouping James Michael Hare (BlackRabbitCoder) Popular 20562 Views

• GetAttribute

  Gets the first assembly attribute of the specified type from the assembly it is called from.

  C# System.Reflection.Assembly James Michael Hare (BlackRabbitCoder) Popular 7584 Views

• IsNullable

  Returns true if the type it is called upon is a System.Nullable<> wrapped type.

  C# System.Type James Michael Hare (BlackRabbitCoder) 6863 Views

• Mask

  A set of extension methods that make it easy to mask a string (to protect account numbers or other personal data).

  For example, you could mask a SSN of 123456789 to be ******789.

  C# System.String James Michael Hare (BlackRabbitCoder) 5774 Views

• TakeUntil

  The opposite of TakeWhile, inverts the expression and passes to TakeWhile so that instead of taking while an expression is true, you take until an expression is true.

  C# System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<T> James Michael Hare (BlackRabbitCoder) 5536 Views

• IsDefault

  Returns true if the object it is called upon is the default of its type. This will be null for referece types, zero for integer types, and a default-initialized struct for structs.

  C# System.Object James Michael Hare (BlackRabbitCoder) 4917 Views

• ToDictionary()

  Converts an IEnumerable> from a GroupBy() clause to a Dictionary>.

  C# System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable James Michael Hare (BlackRabbitCoder) 3998 Views

• GetAttributes

  Gets an enumeration of assembly attributes of the specified type from the assembly it is called from.

  C# System.Reflection.Assembly James Michael Hare (BlackRabbitCoder) 3893 Views

• Repeat

  Repeats a character a given number of times, a little cleaner shortcut than using the string constructor.

  C# System.Char James Michael Hare (BlackRabbitCoder) 3854 Views