C#: String Essential Training

Contents

• Introduction Introduction

  • Working with text in .NET

    52s
  • How to access and clone the GitHub code

    1m 33s
  • Open the cloned solution in Visual Studio

    1m 5s
  • Work with Git branches

    56s
• 1. Overview 1. Overview

  • .NET, text, and strings

    3m 56s
  • What is a string?

    2m 11s
  • Declaring a string variable

    2m 28s
  • Initialize a string variable

    2m 33s
  • Immutable: What does that mean in .NET strings?

    5m 52s
• 2. The Char Type 2. The Char Type

  • The char, the building block of a strong

    5m 33s
  • Initialize a string from a char array

    3m 10s
  • Get a char from a string

    4m 16s
  • Use char methods to analyze Unicode data

    5m 1s
• 3. String Basics 3. String Basics

  • Three ways to work with string literals

    1m 33s
  • Use escape sequences to add control chars to a string

    3m 53s
  • Use verbatim string literals

    4m 20s
• 4. Composing Strings 4. Composing Strings

  • Combine strings with String.Concat

    3m 23s
  • Combine strings with the concatenation operator

    2m 27s
  • Composite formatting with placeholders

    4m 50s
  • Use C# interpolation for simpler composite formatting

    2m 24s
  • Use StringBuilder to improve performance

    4m 15s
  • Use Perf Monitor to examine performance improvements

    2m 53s
• 5. String Methods 5. String Methods

  • Splitting strings into an array

    4m 38s
  • Use LINQ to query string array

    3m 54s
  • Joining an array into a string

    40s
  • Trim unwanted content from a string

    1m 55s
  • Work with a subset of a string

    2m 34s
  • Verify that string contains search characters

    1m 39s
  • Replace and remove content

    4m 24s
  • Challenge: Better substring

    1m 42s
  • Solution: Better substring

    4m 6s
• 6. How Custom Types Format and Parse Strings 6. How Custom Types Format and Parse Strings

  • Custom types and string conversions

    4m 31s
  • How custom types are converted to string with toString()

    2m 32s
  • How custom types override toString()

    1m 37s
  • IFormattable and the toString() call order

    5m 46s
  • Custom formats with IFormattable

    2m 11s
  • Working with culture-specific formats

    4m
  • Challenge: Split a string into two numbers

    3m 8s
  • Solution: Convert a string to the type with parse()

    5m 13s
  • Add custom filters to parse()

    2m 36s
  • Prevent exceptions with a tryParse() implementation

    3m 7s
• 7. Formatting 7. Formatting

  • Formatting data with the built-in numeric formats

    4m 23s
  • Formatting data with custom formatters

    4m 28s
  • Apply conditional string formats

    2m 13s
  • Formatting dates

    2m 40s
  • Challenge: Ordinal formatting

    1m 24s
  • Solution: Ordinal formatting

    2m 31s
• 8. Convert and Parse 8. Convert and Parse

  • The parse() method and the Convert class

    3m 29s
  • Use tryParse() for better error handing

    3m 48s
• 9. Culture Information 9. Culture Information

  • Why is culture important for strings?

    3m 15s
  • The CultureInfo class

    4m
  • Use culture when formatting strings

    3m 31s
  • Invariant culture and strings

    5m 43s
• 10. Compare and Sort 10. Compare and Sort

  • How string comparison works in .NET

    6m 6s
  • Test for equality with String.Equals

    3m 56s
  • Compare strings with String.Compare

    2m 58s
  • Sort strings with Array.Sort and LINQ

    3m 38s
• Conclusion Conclusion

  • Next steps

    1m 7s