int.TryParse syntatic sugar

Question

int.TryPrase is great and all, but there is only one problem...it takes at least two lines of code to use:

int intValue;
string stringValue = \"         


        

Answer 1

Check out the StringExtensions class. It contains an AsInt(String,Int32) extension method that will attempt to convert a string and if unsuccessful populate it with the supplied Int32 value as default.

Example:

var intValue = "123".AsInt(-1);