Tags: C#

Action Delegate and Task Parallelism in C#

Benjamin Perkins C#

I wrote a WPF program recently that contained 2 tree views which were dynamically created, in part, by data located on a database. Initially, I had the creation of the tree views in my Windows_Loaded method, executing the build one after the other. The performance was ok, it took about 1.8 to 2 seconds for […]

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Conditional Methods

Benjamin Perkins C#

One of, if not the most important concepts in software programming is that of Conditional Methods. Conditional methods provide a program with the ability to make decisions based on user input, user selections or data values. The code below is a simple example of a conditional method: When run, it opens a console and requests […]

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Interface in C#

An interface is like a contract. When a person signs a contract they are agreeing to perform in adherence to its’ contents. The person can take any action which is not specifically identified in the contract or build on top of the agreements within it. An interface has a similar concept. In this example I […]

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What do C# values look like in WinDbg

WinDbg Benjamin Perkins

One of the important areas you need to master when analyzing memory dumps is to recognize patterns that are normal and not normal.  You can only come to those conclusions after looking at many, many, many, many memory dumps and either remembering or taking notes on how a process looks when all is ok, so […]

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Hashing with Cryptography and SHA in C#

Benjamin Perkins C#

Disclaimer: Security is a very important aspect, not only for a computer system, but for an entire organization and/or company. Different types of organizations store different types of data which have different types of security requirements. My suggestion is to always consult a security expert with experience in your domain prior to implementing a security […]

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Online SQL Formatter for ORM generated SQL

With the recent introduction of so many ORM’s (Object-relational mapping) tools onto the market it is becoming less and less needful to write SQL statements. Tools like NHibernate, Entity Framework and SubSonic to name a few will take your database mappings and write an optimized query for you. However, during development, testing or production support […]

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