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karenpayneoregon / Person.cs

Created March 16, 2025 16:26

Record PrintMembers custom

	public record Person(string FirstName, string LastName, DateOnly BirthDate, string[] PhoneNumbers)
	{
	protected virtual bool PrintMembers(StringBuilder sb)
	{
	sb.Append($"FirstName = {FirstName}, LastName = {LastName}, Birth = {BirthDate:MM/dd/yyyy}");

	if (!(PhoneNumbers?.Length > 0)) return true;

	sb.Append(", PhoneNumbers: ");
	sb.Append(string.Join(", ", PhoneNumbers));

karenpayneoregon / DateTimeHelpers.cs

Last active March 16, 2025 19:12

How AI can assist a developer

	public static class DateTimeHelpers
	{
	/// <summary>
	/// Generates a list of dates representing the next week's dates starting from the upcoming Sunday.
	/// </summary>
	/// <returns>A list of <see cref="DateOnly"/> objects representing the dates of the next week.</returns>
	public static List<DateOnly> NextWeeksDates()
	{
	var start = DateTime.Now;
	var nextSunday = DateOnly.FromDateTime(start).Next(DayOfWeek.Sunday);

karenpayneoregon / FixedDecimalJsonConverter.cs

Created March 13, 2025 21:34

Serialize decimals to 2 places

	/// <summary>
	/// Provides a custom JSON converter for <see cref="decimal"/> values, ensuring consistent formatting and parsing.
	/// </summary>
	/// <remarks>
	/// This converter reads <see cref="decimal"/> values from JSON as strings and parses them using
	/// <see cref="CultureInfo.InvariantCulture"/>. When writing, it formats <see cref="decimal"/> values
	/// as strings with two decimal places using the same culture.
	/// </remarks>
	public class FixedDecimalJsonConverter : JsonConverter<decimal>
	{

karenpayneoregon / Demo.cs

Last active March 12, 2025 13:03

C# extension to extracts all substrings enclosed in quotes from the provided string.

	string text = "Splits a \"PascalCase\" or \"camelCase\" string into " +
	"separate \"words\" by inserting \"spaces\" before \"uppercase letters\".";
	var parts = text.StringsBetweenQuotes1();
	foreach (var item in parts)
	{
	Console.WriteLine(item);
	}

karenpayneoregon / Demo.cs

Last active February 26, 2025 22:39

C# 11 list pattern

	using System.Text.Json;

	namespace TODO;

	class Samples
	{
	public static void IntegerListMatch()
	{

	List<List<int>> list =

karenpayneoregon / accordionUtilities1.js

Created February 24, 2025 22:08

Toggle accordion item by id

	function expandToolSectionAccordionItem() {
	let collapseElement = document.getElementById('collapseTools');

	if (collapseElement) {
	let bsCollapse = new bootstrap.Collapse(collapseElement, {
	toggle: true
	});
	}
	}

karenpayneoregon / accordionUtilities.js

Created February 24, 2025 17:47

Provides JavaScript helper methods to expand and collapse all items in a Bootstrap 5.3 accordion

	function expandAll() {
	document.querySelectorAll('.accordion-collapse').forEach(item => {
	let bsCollapse = new bootstrap.Collapse(item, { toggle: false });
	bsCollapse.show();
	});
	}

	function collapseAll() {
	document.querySelectorAll('.accordion-collapse').forEach(item => {
	let bsCollapse = new bootstrap.Collapse(item, { toggle: false });

karenpayneoregon / Helpers.cs

Created February 14, 2025 14:13

For Twitter

	string DefaultInterpolatedStringHandler()
	{
	var title = "Mr.";
	var firstName = "John";
	var middleName = "Q.";
	var lastName = "Doe";
	DefaultInterpolatedStringHandler stringHandler = new(50, 4);
	stringHandler.AppendLiteral("Hello ");
	stringHandler.AppendFormatted(title);
	stringHandler.AppendLiteral(" ");

karenpayneoregon / demo.html

Last active February 12, 2025 22:53

Scrollable modal

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8" />
	<title>Bootstrap scrollable modal</title>

	<link href="Lib/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet" />

	<!-- REQUIRED -->
	<script src="Lib/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>

karenpayneoregon / ExceptionHelpers.cs

Last active February 10, 2025 22:38

Spectre.Console custom colored runtime exceptions

	using Spectre.Console;

	namespace SpectreExceptionsLibrary;

	/// <summary>
	/// Custom setting for presenting runtime exceptions using AnsiConsole.WriteException.
	///
	/// The idea here is to present different types of exceptions with different colors while
	/// one would be for all exceptions and the other(s) for specific exception types.
	/// </summary>