The .NET framework provides a set of base class libraries which provide functions and features which can be used with any programming language which implements .NET, such as Visual Basic, C# (or course), Visual C++, etc. The base class library contains standard programming features such as Collections, XML, DataType definitions, IO ( for reading and […]
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The 2 controls above create either a GUID or a Sequential GUID. Generate a Radom GUID online or a Generate a Sequential GUID online using the above control. There is nothing too complicated about creating a random GUID. Using the below C# code provides a unique value. string uniqueRandomKey = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(); I like to use […]
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I wrote previously a post where I combine 2 Lists together here. Recently, I had the requirement to join 2 dictionaries together. I needed to build a DataTable and an NHibernate HQL query dynamically where the column headings could be different than the name of the actual database column name. To do this I created […]
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I needed to create an executable which would run as a job triggered from a scheduler. I decided to create a Console application, using, of course C#. I wanted it to run without the Console window popping up. I asked myself, how do I stop the console window from popping up or how do I […]
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Have a read of Part 1 here if you are stumbling across this article first. The reason I built this cluster of Raspberry Pi’s is to learn. And I can say from the start I have learned a few things. If you take a quick historical look at computing, it started with procedural coding paradigms. […]
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During my many years of active IIS administration which hosted ASP.NET application, we had many discussions about why the first request to the web site took longer than those coming after. In short, it’s because the first request, after a restart of the process results in a recompilation of the temporary ASP.NET files. In complicated, […]
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The other day I needed to implement a search function in a WPF program. I wanted the use to be able to enter the criteria and then the enter key to perform the search. I achieved this by adding a KeyDown event to the text box control in the XAML. KeyDown=”textBox1_KeyDown” And adding the below […]
Read More →In .NET Framework 4, C# supports covariance and contravariance in generic interfaces and delegates. However, if you try to implement either in a class, you will receive an exception. Trying to implement covariance in a return type or overriding a method and attempting to return a different type will not work. Let’s discuss below. public […]
Read More →I liked this concept because it seems kind of sneaky. By that I mean, in the past I was only able to call a method from a base class via inheritance or creating an instance of the class itself. However, now by implementing a generic type parameter we can achieve the same thing. First we […]
Read More →In a previous blog I discussed how to use and implement an interface with generics. I decided shortly after that it would be a good idea, in my context, to loosely bind a type to the interface. In the previous blog, it was left 100% generic and that was fine for the example. However, there […]
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