Sometimes you find the need to pass more than one DataSet as the result of a routine/function. Although you can use reference parameters for doing so, there's another approach. You can pass additional DataSets by adding them to the ExtendedProperties property of the "main" DataSet. ExtendedProperties...

Language: C# Usually string comparisons are needed just to determine the equality (or inequality) of 2 strings. However, there are times when determining inequality isn't the end in itself. Sometimes a developer also needs to know if a particular string should "come before" another string...

Language: C# Performing string comparisons can be considered as one of the "common" tasks that a programmer needs to do and, more often than not, the comparisons need to be case-insensitive. The common method taught (or learned, as the case may be) is to convert the entire string to upper case...

Platform: .NET Framework Language: C# Using reflection, we can determine if a particular variable can be converted to another data type. This is useful if you're not sure if the conversion that you're about to perform is valid or not. Although this can be done using the common way of converting, for...