How to convert a list into array with Linq

In this post, I am going to explain how we can convert an generic list to simple int array with Help of Linq. Recently, I was working on an application and there I needed an Int array of for list of ids in generic list. I tried various methods and then with the help of ‘Select’ operator and ToArray method I have easily converted an generic list to the int array.

Lets take a simple example. I need a contact id list from a generic list of contacts and following is my contact class.

public class Contact
{
    public int ContactId { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

Now I have created a new GetContacts methods to create a new Generic List of Contacts.

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Redirection with ASP.Net friendly URLs

In this post we are going to see how we can use Response.Redirect(Redirecttion) in asp.net friendly URLs. Before some day I have written a post about ASP.NET Friendly URLs – Cleaner, SEO friendly URLs. On that post one reader ‘Ramesh’ asked me that how we can do redirection with ASP.Net friendly URLs. So this post is in reply to Him.

How to redirect a page to ASP.Net friendly URLs:

Actually!! there is nothing to learn. It’s very easy You can directly use the ‘Response.Redirect’ with the ASP.Net friendly URLs. The NuGet Package itself takes care of all the things. You just need to write the route name as a parameter in ‘Response.Redirect’ and you are done!!

Uh!! don’t believe me!!. Let’s take a sample example. I am going to use by default template with ASP.NET Friendly URLs.  So for this example I have created a ASP.Net button in Default template AboutUs.aspx page. Once the click of that button we are going to use ‘Response.Redirect’ for redirection and redirect this page to Contact Page. Following is a html code for that button.

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ASP.NET Friendly URLs – Cleaner, SEO friendly URLs

Search Engine optimization is one of the key factor for your site. If you spend millions of dollars on making your website looks good and bug free then also its possible that you will not get attention of search engine because of your URLs.  For example you’re having shopping cart created in asp.net and you have not optimized your URL then it will look like following.

www.foo.com ?Product.aspx?Category=1& Page=1

If you search engine read this URL then search engine will not know much about this URLs. Even normal people  who does not know querystring menaing(?Category=watch&Page=1) will not understand it. But If you have URL like following.

www.foo.com/prduct/category/watch/page/1

It’s easy to read and search engine and normal people will know that you are loading products that belongs to category watch and this is a first page.

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