I recently needed to mask out some characters of a credit card string so that only the last 4 were displayed. Surprisingly there doesn’t seem to be many good examples of this so I decided to put together something myself and I figured it would be more useful as an Read more…
If you want to get a random string in SQL then you could use newid to generate a GUID and take the alphanumeric characters from it, however while these should obviously be unique from each other they don’t contain the full range of characters that may be desired and sequential Read more…
In trying to parse some URL parameters in a project I realised that Boolean.Parse and Boolean.TryParse work in slightly different ways and that neither was broad enough for my purposes. Boolean.TryParse Boolean.TryParse takes a string input parameter and a Boolean output parameter and returns a Boolean specifying whether the input Read more…
Upper Case the First Letter of a String This is a simple string extension for upper casing the first letter of a string, the code originally came from here. public static class StringExtensions { public static string FirstLetterToUpperCase(this string s) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s)) throw new ArgumentException(“There is no first letter”); Read more…