Questions tagged [casing]
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How do I convert PascalCase to kebab-case with C#?
How do I convert a string value in PascalCase (other name is UpperCamelCase) to kebab-case with C#?
e.g. "VeryLongName" to "very-long-name"

Mikhail Shilkov
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What is the best-practice casing style for javascript? Why?
One aspect of javascript that it's hard to find information on is casing practices. By casing practices, I mean what casing style (ie. camel-case, pascal-case, etc) should be used for what elements (Constructors, private functions, public…

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Why is ᏌᏊ ᎢᏳᎾᎵᏍᏔᏅ ᏍᎦᏚᎩ the native name of the U.S.?
When I use this code:
var ri = new RegionInfo("us");
var nativeName = ri.NativeName; // ᏌᏊ ᎢᏳᎾᎵᏍᏔᏅ ᏍᎦᏚᎩ
why is nativeName then the string "ᏌᏊ ᎢᏳᎾᎵᏍᏔᏅ ᏍᎦᏚᎩ" (in Cherokee)?
If I change to new RegionInfo("US") (only difference, capital US), I get…

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What's the best practice for URL path casing and spacing?
I want to know what is considered a good practise for casing and spacing in URL paths.
Casing:
Lower-case
Camel case
Pascal case
Spacing:
None
Hyphen
Underscore
../data/upload_data
../data/upload-data
../data/uploadData
../Data/UploadData …

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CA1704 - Microsoft seems to be blocking the word 'Multi'?
public class MultiSomething { } //CA1704:IdentifiersShouldBeSpelledCorrectly
When I run Code Analysis, I get an error because the Microsoft does not recognize the word 'Multi' (go figure they use it in IMultiValueConverter). So, what I did to…

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MySQL automatically cast/convert a string to a number?
Does MySQL automatically casting\converting the string to numeric value?
How does that conversion works?
'1234'=1234 ?
'1abc' = 1 ?
'text' = 1 ?
Given that units.id is of bigint type, how this query will be interpreted?
SELECT table.*
FROM table…

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Why is DB an acronym and not abbreviation?
According to the .NET framework design guidelines, they say DB is an acronym and cased as such. But I thought it was an abbreviation of database?
squi
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Best way to check for upper/lower case query strings
I have a problem where I need to extract a query string parameter from a url. The parameter could be either "Territory" or "territory" or other upper/lower case variations of that word. Although the following works for the first two cases I wonder…

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LINQ to XML: Ignoring of the case of attributes
I use LINQ to XML for working with PackageContents.xml file, created by Autodesk company. Company has defined the structure of this XML file here, but without XSD schema.
I have a problem: This company breaks his the rules... Often the case of…

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c# file path string comparison case insensitivity
I would like to compare two strings containing file paths in c#.
However, since in ntfs the default is to use case insensitive paths, I would like the string comparison to be case insensitive in the same way.
However I can't seem to find any…

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How to force UpperCase in a VS2008 snippet?
I've settled on the following style of creating properties (with a backing field):
private _firstName;
public string FirstName
{
get { return _firstName; }
set { _firstName = value; }
}
Given that the name of the property is similar to the…

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Does naming conventions make better maintainable code?
I like to give my variables, methods and objects descriptive names. Obviously not going overboard, but let me give you a couple of examples.
public class Account
{
public decimal Balance { get; set; }
}
Account account = new…

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Git checkout file - casing in file name
Git newbie here :)
Faced casing-related problem: file aspnetdb.mdf was removed from repository several commits ago, I decided to restore it from some of earlier commits and did it is such way:
git checkout master~3 aspnetdb.mdf
wanted to get…

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Why are browsers not caching these static files
my question seems duplicate of this
but I am having a case
when I refresh a page with F5 then images are not getting fetched from cache instead request is going to server and server responding 304 status code(not modified)
but if I type a URL in…

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Determine if HashSet contains a different cased string
I have a large set of strings, including many duplicates. It is important that all of the duplicates have the same casing. So this set would fail the test:
String[] strings = new String[] { "a", "A", "b", "C", "b" };
....but this test would…

Dai
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