C# Extension Methods Example

In this article i am going to explain about Extension Methods  with example.

Extension methods enable you to "add" methods to existing types without creating a new derived type, recompiling, or otherwise modifying the original type. Extension methods are a special kind of static method, but they are called as if they were instance methods on the extended type. For client code written in C# and Visual Basic, there is no apparent difference between calling an extension method and the methods that are actually defined in a type.

If you do implement extension methods for a given type, remember the following points:

An extension method will never be called if it has the same signature as a method defined in the type.

Extension methods are brought into scope at the namespace level. For example, if you have multiple static classes that contain extension methods in a single namespace named Extensions, they will all be brought into scope by the using Extensions; directive.

Below is the code used. I have created a class file inside app_code named ExtesionMethods.cs and created a class named MyExtensionMethods and inside i have created two static methods named In and ToHexadecimal.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Web;

public class ExtensionMethods

{

    public static class MyExtensionMethods

    {

        public static bool In(this string value, params string[] stringValues)

        {

            foreach (string otherValue in stringValues)

                if (string.Compare(value, otherValue) == 0)

                    return true;

            return false;

        }

        public static string ToHexadecimal(this int i)

        {

            return String.Format("0x{0:X}", i);

        }

    }

}

Below is the usage of the extension methods.

int i = 100;

Console.WriteLine("Hexadecimal Value of " + i.ToString() + " is " + i.ToHexadecimal());

Console.ReadLine();

var result = "CoreSystem".In("CoreSystem", "Library");

So whenever i like to apply in condition in string then i will include the namespace in my page and can call this extension method.

If you face any issue in the implementation then add it in comments. I ll help you to solve