JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a data transfer format widely adopted on the web because it’s lightweight compared to XML. I touched on the topic of JSON in an earlier post when I posted some extension methods for compressing/decompressing string. If you are unfamiliar with the JSON format or how it’s supported in .Net then …
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Months of work has finally bore fruit as my second game goes into public beta! Come and join in on the fun, it’s nice here: http://apps.facebook.com/superfuntown Go on! Try it out! Let us know what you think, your feedbacks are much appreciated! About the Game SuperFunTown is a city building game where you assume the …
In C#, there are two ways you can provide an alternative implementation of an inherited method: Override a virtual method Unlike Java where every method can be overridden by default unless marked with the final keyword, C# employs a safer, opt-in system where methods cannot be overridden unless marked with the virtual keyword. A virtual …
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Definition: CTP stands for Community Technology Preview, another fancy term for a ‘beta’ or ‘prototype’. RTM stands for Release To Manufacturing or Release To Market. References: Software release life cycle
I came across these two posts on Eric Lippert‘s blog yesterday which I found very interesting: Representation and Identity Cast operators do not obey the distributive law The blog posts go into a lot of details but long story short, if you box a value type you can’t unbox it to another type: It would …
If you try to serialize/deserialize a type which uses the generic Dictionary<TKey, TValue> type with the XmlSerializer then you’ll get an InvalidOperationException, for instance: Here’s my class: I’ll get an InvalidOperationException with an inner exception of type NotSupportedException when I do this: And the error message of the NotSupportedException is: “Cannot serialize member MyClass.MyDictionary of …
.Net Tips – Xml Serialize or Deserialize Dictionary in C# Read More »
As good and innovative as WCF is, it also introduced a lot of new complexities and whilst it is easy to get something up and running quickly it takes much more understanding to make your service perform as well as it could. There are many things you need to consider such as binding types, serialization …
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Default context = unchecked By default, arithmetic operations and conversions in C# are executed in an unchecked context. This means that for a signed integer it overflows from int.MaxValue to int.MinValue and underflows from int.MinValue to int.MaxValue, hence both statements below evaluates to true: Similarly, for an unsigned integer it will underflow from 0 to …
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Here is a queue class based on the implementation Marc Gravell provided in this StackOverflow question:
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