Tag Archive: c#


ToXmlString extension method

Filed Under: ASP.NET MVC, Dev Tools by Robert Corvus — Comments Off
November 16, 2012

This is an extension method that serializes any object to xml. Note that it is “null resistant” in that if the target is null, the extension does not throw an object-not-set-to-an-instance exception, but instead simply returns null.

public static string ToXmlString(this T item) where T : class
        {
            if (item == null)
            {
                return null;
            }
            string xml;
            using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
            using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(stream))
            {
                new XmlSerializer(item.GetType()).Serialize(writer, item);
                xml = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(stream.ToArray());
            }
            return xml;
        }
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Universal Caching

Filed Under: ASP.NET MVC by Robert Corvus — Comments Off
January 21, 2012

I wrote this library so I don’t have to keep track if I should use HttpRuntime.Cache, AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData, HttpContext.Current.Session, or a Dictionary…now I just use GlobalCache or UserCache.  It also makes unit testing a webapp a snap, because if you use IGlobalCache/IUserCache in your code, you just inject the Windows-based cache in your unit test setup.

You can download the solution with dlls here: Universal Caching solution

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How to POST model if GET action has parameter in ASP.NET MVC

Filed Under: ASP.NET MVC by Robert Corvus — Comments Off
April 24, 2011

Do you have a post action that accepts a parameter (and what post action doesn’t?), but you also have a get action that accepts a parameter and you are seeing that submits are going back to the get action and other strange behavior? Here’s how you fix that:

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New in .NET 4.0: string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace

Filed Under: ASP.NET MVC by Robert Corvus — Comments Off
January 25, 2011

I thought I’d quickly mention this nice time-saver added in .NET 4.0: string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace. It works just like IsNullOrEmpty but also checks to see if there’s nothing but spaces in the string, so you don’t have to Trim before checking.

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How to show nested entity’s properties in an RDLC report

Filed Under: ASP.NET MVC by Robert Corvus — 2 Comments
June 23, 2010

If you have a entity with a nested entity, you can show the nested entity’s properties with a little trick.

For example if you have these business objects:

public class MyObj
{     
    public MyOtherObj MyProperty { get; set; }
}

public class MyOtherObj
{
     public int SomeProperty { get; set; }
}

If you want to show a field from MyProperty (e.g. MyOtherObj.SomeProperty), and MyObj is your report’s datasource, your report fieldbox will need to look like this: 

First(Fields!MyProperty.Value.SomeProperty)

(NOTE: do not add “.Value” onto the end of the property name as normal, it will produce a #error at runtime).

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