Now, this is something that has stung me and every single one of my colleagues time and time again.. Imagine you have an interface called IMyConfiguration which has a get-only property: And the implementing class takes in a parameter called port in the constructor and sets the value of the property using a private setter …
As you most likely know already, there are ToLower() and ToUpper() methods on the String class in C#, but a method to convert a string to ‘Title Case’ is sadly missing. Support for this useful conversion exists in the TextInfo class which has a ToTitleCase method, but you can’t instantiate a new instance of the …
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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:
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, …
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:
For my line of work we use a number of tools to monitor and track user activities in our games, among these is a little known web app called ChartBeat. It provides real-time analytics data on what’s happening on your page, how many people are looking at your page, what are they looking at, etc. …
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Google Chrome is a nice little browser, fast as hell, and it even bundles and updates its Flash plugin all by itself. On the plus side, it means anyone running Chrome will always have the most up-to-date version of Flash player so good news for Flash game developers and web developers alike. On the down …
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 …
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 …
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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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