More fluent C# / .NET

Question

A co-worker of mine came up with this and I wonder what others think? Personally, I find it interesting but wonder if it is too big a departure? Code examples below. Extensi

Answer 1

They're just different coding styles, what do you mean by "too big a departure"? Departure from what? From what you're used to? Only you can decide that. I will say that VB's With block has done more harm than good to code readability, and I would not try to replicate the behavior in C#, but that's just my preference.

I pretty much always use this for FindControl (yeah, strongly typed to RepeaterItem, it doesn't have to be, but that's the only thing I ever use it for anyway):

public static T FindControl(this RepeaterItem item, string id) 
{
    return item.FindControl(id) as T;
}

And invoke it like so:

Literal myLiteral = e.Item.FindControl("myLiteral");