Month: March 2015

Repeat a character x times with c#

Hey everyone, Just a neat little trick I came across on Stackoverflow, repeating a character x times without using a loop: string result = new String(‘x’, 5); //xxxxx string result = new String(‘a’, 3); //aaa Check out the original post for more info: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3754700/522859

March 7, 2015
oldIndex must be a valid index in the Children collection (Visual Studio)

Hey everyone, Just posting this in case anyone else runs into it. After unshelving, the following error kept popping up when I tried to open files using the solution explorer: oldIndex must be a valid index in the Children collection Parameter name: oldIndex Actual value was -1. I’m still not sure what caused it, but…

March 7, 2015

Repeat a character x times with c#