C sharp Cookbook

Preface; 1. Numbers; 1.1 Determining Approximate Equality Between a Fraction and Floating-Point Value; 1.2 Converting Degrees to Radians; 1.3 Converting Radians to Degrees; 1.4 Using the Bitwise Complement Operator with Various Data Types; 1.5 Test for an Even or Odd Value; 1.6 Obtaining the Most- or Least-Significant Bits of a Number; 1.7 Converting a Number in Another Base to Base10; 1.8 Determining Whether a String Is a Valid Number; 1.9 Rounding a Floating-Point Value; 1.10 Different Rounding; Algorithms; 1.11 Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit; 1.12 Converting Fahrenheit to Celsius; 1.13 Safely Performing a Narrowing Numeric Cast; 1.14 Finding the Length of Any Three Sides of a Right Triangle; 1.15 Finding the Angles of a Right Triangle; 2. Strings and Characters; 2.1 Determining the Kind of Character; 2.2 Determining Whether a Character Is Within a Specified Range; 2.3 Controlling Case Sensitivity when Comparing Two Characters; 2.4 Finding All Occurrences of a Character Within a String; 2.5 Finding the Location of All Occurrences of a String Within Another String; 2.6 The Poor Man's Tokenizer; 2.7 Controlling Case Sensitivity when Comparing Two Strings; 2.8 Comparing a String to the Beginning or End of a Second String; 2.9 Inserting Text into a String; 2.10 Removing or Replacing Characters Within a String; 2.11 Encoding Binary Data as Base64; 2.12 Decoding a Base64-Encoded Binary; 2.13 Converting a String Returned as a Byte[ ] Back into a String; 2.14 Passing a String to a Method that Accepts Only a Byte[ ]; 2.15 Converting Strings to Their Equivalent Value Type; 2.16 Formatting Data in Strings; 2.17 Creating a Delimited String; 2.18 Extracting Items from a Delimited String; 2.19 Setting the Maximum Number of Characters a String Can Contain; 2.20 Iterating Over Each Character in a String; 2.21 Improving String Comparison Performance; 2.22 Improving StringBuilder Performance; 2.23 Pruning Characters from the Head and/or Tail of a String; 3. Classes and Structures; 3.1 Creating Union-Type Structures; 3.2 Allowing a Type to Represent Itself as a String; 3.3 Converting a String Representation of an Object into an Actual Object; 3.4 Polymorphism via Concrete or Abstract Base Classes; 3.5 Making a Type Sortable; 3.6 Making a Type Searchable; 3.7 Indirectly Overloading the +=, -=, /=, and x= Operators; 3.8 Indirectly Overloading the &&, ||, and ?: Operators; 3.9 Improving the Performance of a Structure's Equals Method; 3.10 Turning Bits On or Off; 3.11 Making Error-Free Expressions; 3.12 Minimizing (Reducing) Your Boolean Logic; 3.13 Converting Between Simple Types in a Language Agnostic Manner; 3.14 Determining Whether to Use the Cast Operator, the as Operator, or the is Operator; 3.15 Casting with the as Operator; 3.16 Determining a Variable's Type with the is Operator; 3.17 Polymorphism via Interfaces; 3.18 Calling the Same Method on Multiple Object Types; 3.19 Adding a Notification Callback Using an Interface; 3.20 Using Multiple Entry Points to Version an