XML documentation parse error (warning in Visual Studio)

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I was working with a VB.NET project today and noticed the following warning:

XML documentation parse error: Whitespace is not allowed at this location. XML comment will be ignored.

After a quick search on the web I found the problem was using the ‘&’ character which is a reserved character for XML documentation. So my solution was to change ‘&’ to ‘and’ but I also found that placing the comment inside of <![CDATA[ Comments ]]> works. Here’s an example of my comment:

'''

''' This is a comment with an ampersand & causes a warning in Visual Studio.
''' 

''' 
''' 
''' 
Public Property s1() As String
	Get
		Return ""
	End Get
End Property

.NET String.Format

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Standard Numeric Format Specifiers
(C) Currency: . . . . . . . . ($123.00)
(D) Decimal:. . . . . . . . . -123
(E) Scientific: . . . . . . . -1.234500E+002
(F) Fixed point:. . . . . . . -123.45
(G) General:. . . . . . . . . -123
(default):. . . . . . . . -123 (default = ‘G’)
(N) Number: . . . . . . . . . -123.00
(P) Percent:. . . . . . . . . -12,345.00 %
(R) Round-trip: . . . . . . . -123.45
(X) Hexadecimal:. . . . . . . FFFFFF85

Standard DateTime Format Specifiers
(d) Short date: . . . . . . . 6/26/2004
(D) Long date:. . . . . . . . Saturday, June 26, 2004
(t) Short time: . . . . . . . 8:11 PM
(T) Long time:. . . . . . . . 8:11:04 PM
(f) Full date/short time: . . Saturday, June 26, 2004 8:11 PM
(F) Full date/long time:. . . Saturday, June 26, 2004 8:11:04 PM
(g) General date/short time:. 6/26/2004 8:11 PM
(G) General date/long time: . 6/26/2004 8:11:04 PM
(default):. . . . . . . . 6/26/2004 8:11:04 PM (default = ‘G’)
(M) Month:. . . . . . . . . . June 26
(R) RFC1123:. . . . . . . . . Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:11:04 GMT
(s) Sortable: . . . . . . . . 2004-06-26T20:11:04
(u) Universal sortable: . . . 2004-06-26 20:11:04Z (invariant)
(U) Universal full date/time: Sunday, June 27, 2004 3:11:04 AM
(Y) Year: . . . . . . . . . . June, 2004

Standard Enumeration Format Specifiers
(G) General:. . . . . . . . . Green
(default):. . . . . . . . Green (default = ‘G’)
(F) Flags:. . . . . . . . . . Green (flags or integer)
(D) Decimal number: . . . . . 3
(X) Hexadecimal:. . . . . . . 00000003

Whys to validate Phone Numbers in C#

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using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

class RegexSubstitution
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      string text = "124";

      if ( !Regex.Match(text,@"^[1-9]\d{2}-[1-9]\d{2}-\d{4}$" ).Success )
      {
         Console.WriteLine( "Invalid phone number");
      }
   }
}

Validate Phone Number

public bool IsValidUSPhone(string number)
{
    return Regex.IsMatch(number, @"\(\d{3}\)\s\d{3}-\d{4}");
}

Matching and Grouping Regular Expressions using Regex in C#

Access Selected GridViewRow in GridView

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GridViewRow selectedRow = (GridViewRow)(((Control)e.CommandSource).NamingContainer);

Inline IF’ Statement

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C#

string s;
s = (true ? "True" : "False"); //s will be "True"

VB.NET

Dim s As String
s = If(True, "True", "False") 's will be "True"
'In the following you cannot rely on a particular function
'not being called if the other argument is selected by Expression
'(notice IIf vs. If)
s = IIf(True, "True", "False") 's will be "True"

JavaScript

var s = (true) ? 'True' : 'False'; //s will be "True"