If you have 2 dictionaries of the same datatype in C# which you want to merge together then you can use the following code. If a key exists in both of the dictionaries then the primary value will overwite the secondary value. In the above example secondaryDictionary will now contain … Read more
While trying to add items to a dictionary I discovered that there’s no equivalent of the AddRange which is available for lists. This is for good reason as adding a KeyValuePair to a dictionary requires first checking that the given key doesn’t already exist and so is more computationally expensive … Read more
If you want to insert a row into an Azure Table Storage table the easiest way is to create a new class with the desired fields that inherits from TableEntity perform an insert operation with it using the storage client. This works fine as long as long as the properties … Read more
If you want to send some URL encoded content to an API you can use the built in FormUrlEncodedContent to convert an IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>> to a correctly coded content object. The most basic way to get the required KeyValuePair IEnumerable is to manually create it. As this is quite a … Read more
I’ve gotten so used to working with JSON that I’d almost forgotten what a chore it can be to work with XML. A case in point is the below XML sample that I’m trying to deserialize into a class, essentially I want to capture all the attributes of the “Attribute” … Read more