When working with XML, you sometimes want to save some Text into the XML.
That can lead to problems when you use special Chars which then confuses the XML Parser.
To fix that you could just use multiple Replaces over your String or just use the .Net Function:
System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape
Example:
string myText = "Hello & World! <3";
string myTextXMLSafe = System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape(myText);
// myTextXMLSafe is now "Hello & World! <3"
C# 3.0 has a “nice” Feature called “Anonymous Types”.
Basically it is great for LINQ where you want to create a Type on the fly.
To create such a Type just use
var myAnonymousObject = new {
Firstname = "John",
Lastname = "Doe"
};
Now you possibly want to extend that a little and have a Function return a List of such a Type.
You can’t use List<T> because you don’t know the Type. You could use a List<object> but that’s not nice. It’s better to use a Feature called “Casting by Example”.
An Example Function implementing this Feature could look like:
public List<T> GetList<T>(T exampleObject)
{
List<T> newList = new List<T>();
// TODO: Fill the List somehow
return newList;
}
You can then call this Function like this:
var someList = GetList(
new {
Firstname = "",
Lastname = ""
}
);