我最常用的扩展是一个可以格式化字节数组:

/// <summary>
/// Returns a string representation of a byte array.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="bytearray">The byte array to represent.</param>
/// <param name="subdivision">The number of elements per group,
/// or 0 to not restrict it. The default is 0.</param>
/// <param name="subsubdivision">The number of elements per line,
/// or 0 to not restrict it. The default is 0.</param>
/// <param name="divider">The string dividing the individual bytes. The default is " ".</param>
/// <param name="subdivider">The string dividing the groups. The default is "  ".</param>
/// <param name="subsubdivider">The string dividing the lines. The default is "\r\n".</param>
/// <param name="uppercase">Whether the representation is in uppercase hexadecimal.
/// The default is <see langword="true"/>.</param>
/// <param name="prebyte">The string to put before each byte. The default is an empty string.</param>
/// <param name="postbyte">The string to put after each byte. The default is an empty string.</param>
/// <returns>The string representation.</returns>
/// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException">
/// <paramref name="bytearray"/> is <see langword="null"/>.
/// </exception>
public static string ToArrayString(this byte[] bytearray,
    int subdivision = 0,
    int subsubdivision = 0,
    string divider = " ",
    string subdivider = "  ",
    string subsubdivider = "\r\n",
    bool uppercase = true,
    string prebyte = "",
    string postbyte = "")
{
    #region Contract
    if (bytearray == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("bytearray");
    #endregion

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(
        bytearray.Length * (2 + divider.Length + prebyte.Length + postbyte.Length) +
        (subdivision > 0 ? (bytearray.Length / subdivision) * subdivider.Length : 0) +
        (subsubdivision > 0 ? (bytearray.Length / subsubdivision) * subsubdivider.Length : 0));
    int groupElements = (subdivision > 0 ? subdivision - 1 : -1);
    int lineElements = (subsubdivision > 0 ? subsubdivision - 1 : -1);
    for (long i = 0; i < bytearray.LongLength - 1; i++)
    {
        sb.Append(prebyte);
        sb.Append(String.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, (uppercase ? "{0:X2}" : "{0:x2}"), bytearray[i]));
        sb.Append(postbyte);

        if (lineElements == 0)
        {
            sb.Append(subsubdivider);
            groupElements = subdivision;
            lineElements = subsubdivision;
        }
        else if (groupElements == 0)
        {
            sb.Append(subdivider);
            groupElements = subdivision;
        }
        else
            sb.Append(divider);

        lineElements--;
        groupElements--;
    }
    sb.Append(prebyte);
    sb.Append(String.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, (uppercase ? "{0:X2}" : "{0:x2}"), bytearray[bytearray.LongLength - 1]));
    sb.Append(postbyte);

    return sb.ToString();
}

默认情况下，ToArrayString()只是将字节数组打印为由单个字节组成的长字符串。但是，ToArrayString(4,16)将字节分组为4个一组，一行16个字节，就像在您最喜欢的十六进制编辑器中一样。下面很好地格式化了字节数组，以便在c#代码中使用:

byte[] bytearray = new byte[]{ ... };
Console.Write(bytearray.ToArrayString(4, 16, ", ", ",   ", ",\r\n", true, "0x"));

这是我写的，所以你可以用Codeplex。

……怎么样?

public static bool IsWinXPOrHigher(this OperatingSystem OS)
{
  return (OS.Platform == PlatformID.Win32NT)
    && ((OS.Version.Major > 5) || ((OS.Version.Major == 5) && (OS.Version.Minor >= 1)));
}

public static bool IsWinVistaOrHigher(this OperatingSystem OS)
{
  return (OS.Platform == PlatformID.Win32NT)
    && (OS.Version.Major >= 6);
}

public static bool IsWin7OrHigher(this OperatingSystem OS)
{
  return (OS.Platform == PlatformID.Win32NT)
    && ((OS.Version.Major > 6) || ((OS.Version.Major == 6) && (OS.Version.Minor >= 1)));
}

public static bool IsWin8OrHigher(this OperatingSystem OS)
{
  return (OS.Platform == PlatformID.Win32NT)
    && ((OS.Version.Major > 6) || ((OS.Version.Major == 6) && (OS.Version.Minor >= 2)));
}

用法:

if (Environment.OSVersion.IsWinXPOrHigher())
{
  // do stuff
}

if (Environment.OSVersion.IsWinVistaOrHigher())
{
  // do stuff
}

if (Environment.OSVersion.IsWin7OrHigher())
{
  // do stuff
}

if (Environment.OSVersion.IsWin8OrHigher())
{
  // do stuff
}

这是我写的唯一一个我经常使用的扩展。 它使得用System.Net.Mail发送电子邮件更容易一些。

public static class MailExtension
{
    // GetEmailCreditial(out strServer) gets credentials from an XML file
    public static void Send(this MailMessage email)
    {
        string strServer = String.Empty;
        NetworkCredential credentials = GetEmailCreditial(out strServer);
        SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(strServer) { Credentials = credentials };
        client.Send(email);
    }

    public static void Send(this IEnumerable<MailMessage> emails)
    {
        string strServer = String.Empty;
        NetworkCredential credentials = GetEmailCreditial(out strServer);
        SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(strServer) { Credentials = credentials };
        foreach (MailMessage email in emails)
            client.Send(email);
    }
}

// Example of use: 
new MailMessage("info@myDomain.com","you@gmail.com","This is an important Subject", "Body goes here").Send();
//Assume email1,email2,email3 are MailMessage objects
new List<MailMessage>(){email1, email2, email}.Send();

讨厌这种代码?

CloneableClass cc1 = new CloneableClass ();
CloneableClass cc2 = null;
CloneableClass cc3 = null;

cc3 = (CloneableClass) cc1.Clone (); // this is ok
cc3 = cc2.Clone (); // this throws null ref exception
// code to handle both cases
cc3 = cc1 != null ? (CloneableClass) cc1.Clone () : null;

它有点笨拙，所以我用这个扩展替换它，我称之为CloneOrNull -

public static T CloneOrNull<T> (this T self) where T : class, ICloneable
{
    if (self == null) return null;
    return (T) self.Clone ();
}

用法如下:

CloneableClass cc1 = new CloneableClass ();
CloneableClass cc2 = null;
CloneableClass cc3 = null;

cc3 = cc1.CloneOrNull (); // clone of cc1
cc3 = cc2.CloneOrNull (); // null
// look mom, no casts!

请随意在任何地方使用这个!

您可能已经知道扩展方法的一个有趣用法是作为一种mixin。一些扩展方法，比如XmlSerializable，几乎污染了所有类;这对大多数人来说没有意义，比如Thread和SqlConnection。

一些功能应该显式地混合到希望拥有它的类中。我对这种类型提出了一种新的表示法，以M为前缀。

XmlSerializable是这样的:

public interface MXmlSerializable { }
public static class XmlSerializable {
  public static string ToXml(this MXmlSerializable self) {
    if (self == null) throw new ArgumentNullException();
    var serializer = new XmlSerializer(self.GetType());
    using (var writer = new StringWriter()) {
      serializer.Serialize(writer, self);
      return writer.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
    }
  }
  public static T FromXml<T>(string xml) where T : MXmlSerializable {
    var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
    return (T)serializer.Deserialize(new StringReader(xml));
  }
}

然后一个类将其混合:

public class Customer : MXmlSerializable {
  public string Name { get; set; }
  public bool Preferred { get; set; }
}

用法很简单:

var customer = new Customer { 
  Name = "Guybrush Threepwood", 
  Preferred = true };
var xml = customer.ToXml();

如果您喜欢这个想法，您可以在项目中为有用的mixin创建一个新的名称空间。你怎么看?

哦，顺便说一下，我认为大多数扩展方法都应该显式地测试null。

覆盖指定索引处的字符串的一部分。

我必须使用一个系统，它期望一些输入值是固定宽度，固定位置的字符串。

public static string Overwrite(this string s, int startIndex, string newStringValue)
{
  return s.Remove(startIndex, newStringValue.Length).Insert(startIndex, newStringValue);
}

所以我可以这样做:

string s = new String(' ',60);
s = s.Overwrite(7,"NewValue");