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Value and Reference / In Depth

Whatever you do in the .NET framework deals either with value or reference types, yet, there seems to be a great deal of confusion in many discussions with fellow developers and on online forums and QA sites about where the actual variables reside. It is so basic yet a cause of so many misconceptions. For […]

Filtering duplicates out of an IEnumerable

Problem: Filtering out(removing duplicates) from an IEnumerable One possible solution with using linq would be to group by key and take the first element of each group. Here’s an example: enumerable.GroupBy(x => x.key).Select(g => g.First())

Providing a File for Download trough a Save As Dialog in ASP.NET

The question of providing a file trough a SaveAs dialog in a web browser appears very often in the forums and QA websites like Stackoverflow. The default action of the web browser when a file is provided is to open it. It automatically determines the file type and opens it inside the browser. An example would be […]