You can find the current time in a different time zone using the TimeZoneInfo class. To find all the available system time zones: From the returned values you can see the So, if I want to find out what the time is in Amsterdam: I can do this to get the time in HH:mm:ss format:
With WCF, provided that you’re using the DataContractSerializer and not the NetDataContractSerializer, you have a certain degree of protection against data contract changes from the client’s perspective. Existing contracts will still work if existing members are not removed from the data contract, which means you are free to add new members to the data contract …
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DataContractSerializer For those of your who are familiar with WCF you would no doubt know about the DataContractSerializer class, the DataContractSerializer does not include the CLR type information in the serialized XML, which allows for loose coupling between the client and server because they don’t have to share the same CLR types. However, this also …
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Stumbled upon an interesting question on StackOverflow today regarding what goes on under the hood when you use the switch statement in C#. Based on the answer by Brian Gideon (kudos for doing all that legwork!), for the following code: the C# compiler will: if the number of case statements is small then emit a …
Yet another major new feature SuperFunTown, you can now rotate your entire town! To rotate your town left or right, simply click on one of the two new buttons (see left), but remember, you can only rotate your own town! Struggling with all the towering buildings and would like to see those nice little decoration …
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We’ve all been there before, write a simple service with a simple method: As time goes by, the simple method gets more complicated, and the list of parameters grows and eventually simple method is overloaded to provide more variety and simple method is simple no more! A simple solution to this is the Request-Response pattern, …
By now, Windows 7 is almost old news and most of you would have been using or at least seen Windows 7 and one of the first things that should have caught your attention is the redesigned task bar. The new task bar are visually much more pleasant and functionally it has also introduced a …
Yup, you’ve heard right, finally you can have some moving parts in your town! All you need is to build a ‘Used Car Dealer’ (see images below) in your town so the town folks can start buying cars to drive their kids to school or generally move around the town. You will start seeing the …
You can find out some useful information about the OS your application is running in by using the Environment.OSVersion property: You can also easily check for the minimum OS version:
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