In C/C++ and C# one has useful prefix (++index) and postfix (index++) increment operators and corresponding decrement ones. Although they have a single operant, they’re not working like functions as single + or – prefix would do, but instead they cause side-effects – they edit the variable passed to them. The prefix increment operator first ...

Seems StartsWith and EndsWith methods of String class in .NET are missing a version that accepts multiple (as an array) prefixes or suffixes respectively when testing the string. To achieve this I just added the following extension methods to StringExtensions class (of Utils.Extensions namespace) under Utils.Silverlight project at the ClipFlair ...

Just added the following extension methods to StringExtensions class (of Utils.Extensions namespace) under Utils.Silverlight project at the ClipFlair source code. public static string ReplacePrefix( this string s, string fromPrefix, string toPrefix, StringComparison comparisonType) { return (s.StartsWith(fromPrefix, comparisonType)) ? toPrefix + ...