Extension Method

ASP.NET MVC Extension Method for the ID in the Route

By John Bubriski on November 9, 2011

If you’ve worked on an ASP.NET MVC site, you may have had to reference the ID in the current route.  In a Razor view you can reference it via the following variable: @Url.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["id"] You may use this a lot if you have a lot of inter-action navigation. Why not throw it into an extension method!? [...]

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Batch Delete with the Entity Framework

By John Bubriski on March 12, 2010

There is a minor problem with the Entity Framework in that it doesn’t support certain batch operations. You can, of course, retrieve multiple rows at a time, and updates to tracked objects on a given data context can all be pushed back to the data store in a single SaveChanges() call. But what about adding [...]

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Can't use the same parameter list when creating Extension Methods

By John Bubriski on November 11, 2009

Everyone knows that you can’t create an extension method that uses the same name and parameter list as an existing method of the type your extending.  So for example, this method would be perfectly valid: public static string IsNullOrEmpty(this string text) { return string.IsNullOrEmpty(text); } Why?  Well, for one, the method parameters are different.  The [...]

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Simple C# Extension Method to truncate a string, preserving the last word.

By John Bubriski on November 11, 2009

We needed to truncate a summary down to n number of characters to provide a uniform look and feel.  So I whipped up this extension method to take the current string and truncate to n characters, attach an ellipsis to the end, and optionally keep the last word of the string preserved.  In other words, [...]

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