In the last post, I showed how we use SQL Sequence to achieve sequential number ID in a specific range. As mentioned in the last post, we and each party that we integrate with have a defined range of number to be used as ID and this ID must be unique globally among all the … [Read more…]
I had a junior developer commenting on a PR that it’s missing a null check before calling an extension method on a string as the string can be null and it would throw a null reference exception. This results in an interesting discussion among the developers. Let’s say the extension method looks something like this. … [Read more…]
I have a client generated enum class with values already defined. I have to populate a dropdown list with all the enum values with a different order than the order they are declared in. First, I thought its as simple as just rearranging the order they are declared in to the order I need and … [Read more…]
In this post I will show how to convert UTC date to local Australian date by state. The result will be in the format of {localDateTime} – {timezone name} ({timezone abbreviation}) e.g “14/10/2018 20:30 – Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)” I added this method as an extension on DateTime
I was tasked to build a method that would take in any object and a string that specifies the property to be returned. Let’s say we have a complex object as followed public class Company { public string Name { get; set; } public string ABN { get; set; } public int YearFounded { get; … [Read more…]
I’m going to show how to get the value from the Description attribute on each enum. We have the following enum as an example public enum MonthOfYear { [Description(“First month of the year”)] January, [Description(“Second month of the year”)] February, [Description(“Third month of the year”)] March // … and so on } If you use … [Read more…]