What do two left-angle brackets “<<” mean in C#?

Question

Basically the questions in the title. I\'m looking at the MVC 2 source code:

[Flags]
public enum HttpVerbs {
    Get = 1 << 0,
    Post = 1 << 1,         


        

Answer 1

Thats bit shifting. Its basically just moving the bits to the left by adding 0's to the right side.

public enum HttpVerbs {
    Get = 1 << 0,    // 00000001 -> 00000001 = 1
    Post = 1 << 1,   // 00000001 -> 00000010 = 2
    Put = 1 << 2,    // 00000001 -> 00000100 = 4
    Delete = 1 << 3, // 00000001 -> 00001000 = 8
    Head = 1 << 4    // 00000001 -> 00010000 = 16
}

More info at http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/CSharpShiftOperators.aspx