Visual studio 2012 color editor- Make Visual studio 2012 Colorful

This blog will be part of visual studio 2012 features series.

I personally like the Metro UI for Visual Studio 2102 but  still some people are not happy with it. They really like Old Visual Studio 2010 layout and they wanted to have same kind of color in visual studio 2012. For those who want to change the color of Visual studio there is a plug in called Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme editor. From which you can set colors for visual studio UI and make your visual studio look colorful. Following is a link for that.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05

Once you download that from above location and click on installer it will ask for accepting terms and conditions like following.

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C# null-coalescing operator ??

C# language provides many features and null-coalescing operator(??) is one of them. It’s a great operator to check whether object is null and if it is null then it will provide a default value. I have seen most of the people are not using while it’s a great feature. So I decided to write a blog about this.

You can find more information about null-coalescing operator from the below link.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173224.aspx

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Tip-Convert array to Comma delimited string

I was needed to convert an string array into the comma delimited string and the old way to do that is too with for loop. But I was sure that there should be some ready made function that will do this very easily.

After doing some research I have found string.Join. With the help of this we can easily an array into the comma delimited string.

String.join have two arguments one is separator and other one is either array or enumerable.

Following is a code for that.

namespace ConsoleApplication3
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main() {
            string[] name = {"Jalpesh", "Vishal", "Tushar", "Gaurang"};
            string commnaDelmietedName = string.Join(",", name);
            System.Console.WriteLine(commnaDelmietedName);
        }
    }
}

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