Tagged: extension methods

1

Extension methods don’t compile? No panic!

I came across to a really strange problem today. Some extension methods that I have copied from another project just did not want to be compiled at all. ‘string’ does not contain a definition for ‘MethodName’. I have checked everything, including clearing the temporary ASP.NET files within framework folder (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\…), restarting Visual Studio and even restarting the OS. The target...

0

Some useful UpdatePanel extensions

I want to share some pretty basic and useful UpdatePanel control extensions with you. Method names are self explaining so I will not go deep in details. public static void AlertOnLoad(this UpdatePanel updatePanel, string key, string message) { message = message.Replace(“‘”, “\'”).Replace(“\r\n”, “”).Replace(“\n”, “”); message = “alert(‘” + message + “‘);”; AjaxControlToolkit.ToolkitScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(updatePanel, updatePanel.GetType(), key, message, true); } public static void...

3

Strip all HTML tags from string

This is something we need very often. Either for security reasons or just because of some business rules. I will share a small code snippet with you as an extension method to string type so you can take advantages of using Regular Expressions to remove HTML tags from any user input. public static string StripHtml(this string value) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value))...

0

How to uppercase the first letter of a word or sentence

When I used to use PHP to develop my web applications, I really loved its basic but useful method named ucfirst. This function is explained using a simple explanation on PHP documentation: ucfirst — Make a string’s first character uppercase I believe within all those useful and complex libraries taking place in .NET Framework, it still misses these kind of...