Tag Archives: Snippet

How to check for duplicates

By Torleif | Published: January 19, 2010
Say you have an IEnumerable<T> of some sort and you want to check if it contains any duplicates. How do you do that? Terrible solution I needed to do this a while ago and the first solution that hit me wasn’t exactly good. Linq has method called Distinct, which returns the distinct items in a sequence (weeds [...]
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Generics and checking for null

By Torleif | Published: November 13, 2009
When writing C#, in Visual Studio, using generics… have you ever tried checking for null? I have always found that a bit of a hassle. Say we have this method which returns the subject if it is not null, and the result of a createNew() function if it is null. public static T NewIfNull<t>(this T subject, [...]
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