Programming
Check if a Value is Present in Multiple Lists
If you have 2 (or more) lists in C# and you want to check if they have 1 or more values in common then you can use the following LINQ to check.
Programming
Serializing/Deserializing XML Attribute Lists
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…
Programming
Reading Lists from appsettings.json
I’ve been using the SendGrid API for a project and I was trying to be lazy and read multiple email addresses to send to from a single parameter in appsettings.json with the email addresses separated by a semicolon. Strangely this only sends to the first email in the string so Read more…
Programming
List Shuffling
This is just a simple extension for lists to enable the shuffling of items within it based on the StackOverflow answer here. This relies on System.Random so isn’t as random as it could be but is fine for my purposes.
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Splitting Lists Into Chunks
Whilst writing a process to upload instore purchases to Facebook using their offline conversion API I discovered that their API only accepts a maximum of 2,100 events in any one API call. As I already ahd a nice list of events I had a look around and managed to find Read more…
Programming
Comparing List Objects
I have a list of EventType objects with the following definition. These are used in a web application where the properties can be adjusted and the resulting list is posted back to the controller action. Rather than updating all the objects returned (even the non-modified ones) I wanted to extract Read more…