C# is a multi-paradigm, managed, garbage-collected, object-oriented programming language created by Microsoft in conjunction with the .NET platform.
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An AES Cryptography Wrapper
I built this wrapper over the System.Security.Cryptography.Aes encryption/decryption so that one need only instance the class and call the appropriate methods. This makes it much simpler to work with ...
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Counting email addresses with different status
I want to count email addresses with different status. I use ASP.NET MVC and this query is supposed to ran every 5 minutes on these tables, which every table is on different .ndf files. About 5 ...
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Recursive Search Binary Tree C# [on hold]
I am trying to find out if this program can check if a binary tree is BST or not,
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Tic Tac Toe game in C#
I wanted to get into C#, so I tried making a simple game. My first language was Java, so it was pretty easy to get the hang of C#.
I know that there are multiple other posts of tic tac toe games, ...
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WCF service and database
I have a WCF service that work with databse. The service should handle incoming message and store messagId into database. Please suggest me how can I improve it?
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Combating magic strings in a web application
I'm on a quest to combat all the magic strings which tends to pile up in an ASP.NET MVC application.
All reviews will be highly appreciate but please note that:
Some of the classes contains more ...
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Dynamic CSV Formatter
I made a dynamic CSV formatter as a personal challenge after having to hardcode a behavior to convert some data to CSV earlier. You input any List that contains supported types as properties (all ...
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Dictionary GetValueOrDefault
I'm pretty sure there's no better way to do this but I thought a consensus on here might be nice. Let me know what you think.
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Unit tests for a repository with the help of AutoFixture
I find it hard to do a test for a repository and very time consuming.
Things I think about when creating unit tests for a repository:
Should I skip creating unit test for them?
Should I create an in ...
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Printing job task
Now I have task very similar to this:
Job is a group of print items. For example, a job can be a run of
business cards, envelopes, and letterhead together.
Some items qualify as being ...
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Wrapping tuples to be used as keys in a Dictionary
I'm currently working on a project where I have to map some objects to several properties.
Basically I need a Dictionary with Tuples as keys and instances of MyClass as values.
As using tuples can ...
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Switching on hardware ports
I have the following function for turning on some ports on a piece of hardware:
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Change implementation from getting json from file to get it from API
I used to get a json file with some configuration settings from the file system, using this class
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The granularity level to repeat code: should downloading, unzipping etc. be handled by separate classes? [migrated]
I make extensive use of DI, but I wonder, where is the 'granurality' limit, when some set of functionality should be separated to a class - lets take an example:
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SalesTax problem (C# version)
One year ago I published an F# solution of the same task and there is an old C# solution. But I think it's a simple task and require a simple solution.
What do you think?
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Centering a line of text
I need a procedure that "centers" a string inside a string that is consecutive characters of a fixed length. For instance,
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Standard Dieviation code, how to do this using generics? [on hold]
I have been reading around a lot about generics and I find it useful when dealing with the repository pattern and patterns in general. But to date most of my code using generics has only been working ...
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Running tasks in parallel
I've just started writing asynchronous methods for the first time having watched some tutorials.
I have a method where I run two tasks in parallel (...
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Optimise MSSQL Connection .NET Helper Library
I recently posted my old .NET MSSQL Wrapper to be code reviewed: .NET MSSQL Wrapper
I had some good feedback and based on that, I was able to re-factor it quite a bit and ended up with the following ...
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Client for many similar kinds of REST requests
I have a class that makes calls to a Web API (Using RestSharp), which works fine but the code is super ugly. What would be the best way to refactor it? I thought of just doing a Facade pattern so all ...
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Is your source code “pristine”?
This was brought about by this codegolf question.
Problem
A program is said to be pristine if it is:
A working program (No errors).
The program will produce errors by removing any contiguous ...
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Implementing Work Steal in multiple producer and consumer threads scenario in C# [on hold]
Kindly guide me the best and fastest efficient way to handle my below business scenario :--
I have to read pending records from one table present in 9 different database (table name and structure is ...
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Generic methods for serializing and deserialzing xml files using streams followup
Recently I asked this question: Generic methods for serializing and deserialzing xml files using streams
However it has come to my attention that this gives me an (harmless) exception when trying to ...
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Extracting an XML config file from ZIP file and parsing it
I am currently working with an app that should load various info on a very specific zip file which contains the XML config file, using the DotNetZip library on C#, here's the code:
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Using EqualityComparer to find contained value
While searching for a method in HashSet which allows me to actually find an object in \$O(1)\$ (not just Contains, I need the ...
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Fetching, adding, and viewing games
This is a simple application that will eventually manage certain files for video games. For now, I'm only posting code that handles fetching, adding, and viewing games.
I'm trying to keep things ...
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Converting a 12 hour time string to a 24 hour time string
Input - Standard input - HH:MM:SS[AM|PM] format.
Examples:
12:00:00AM
12:00:00PM
01:00:10AM
01:00:10PM
The program reads one line per instance.
Output - military format (24 hour format):
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.NET MSSQL Wrapper
Back in late 2012, I wrote the following C# .NET MSSQL Wrapper, which offered the following operations:
ExecuteScalar (for selecting single field from a row)
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Compress numbers in a string array (#3, #1, #2, #4) to range (#1:#4)
This function takes a string array,
{"foo", "#123", "#124", "bar", "#125", "#126"}
makes a new array with the numbers converted to a range:
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Convert numbers in a string array (#3, #1, #2, #4) to range (#1:#4)
Updated question: Compress numbers in a string array (#3, #1, #2, #4) to range (#1:#4)
This function takes a string array,
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Random integer range with exceptions
I have to generate a random number from a range with exceptions held in a bool array, is there a way to do it without a loop depending on probability?
There is also a potential infinite loop here if ...
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Saving user information on exit in C# [closed]
Ok so I made a console application that stores data into arrays so I can log test scores but I need it to save on exiting the program. I want to be able to see the scores I entered when I reopen the ...
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Async Yield and continue on TaskPool
Using await task.ConfigureAwait(false) is a standard best practice for indicating to the compiler that the continuation does not need to be run on the current ...
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Adding new articles
Following is a working program to add new articles. The only thing I want is to check if there is any way to write it in a better way, or if the architecture is good as it is.
Maybe I did not have to ...
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Sending a message from client to server and back again
I have a client, middleware and a server in three Windows Form Applications. I can send a message from the client to the server via middleware but I need that message to come straight back from the ...
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Storing object converters, data sources, loading and updating configurations
I have a static class Configuration holding two collections: one for object converters an the other one for data sources.
When I load a configuration from either ...
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lz77 is slow operating on byte arrays
I ported a lz77 implementation from java, changed it from operating on strings to bytes and improved its performance following the advices of this question.
Testing the performance, I found that ...
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Safely aborting thrid-party code using TPL
I'm using some third-party libraries in my project. Once in a while the code in these libraries freaks out and produces infinite loops and other nasty things. My goal is to write a wrapper that allows ...
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WPF canvas drawing very slow
I am building a map editor to easily create 2d levels. To visualize how my level looks like I am using a canvas. On this canvas I can select which block is filled with a certain type ( like solid ). I ...
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Cipher decryption and encryption
I'm brand new to C# and I've started to make a cipher decryption program. The code works and runs fine, apart from the odd exception. I'm just looking for ways to improve my code and make more ...
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Index a document and perform analyses on its term vector
I have the following scenario: I create a lucene document from a potentially very large text. Apart from indexing the text, I perform some analysis on the document for which I need the document's term ...
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Validating users with Roles
I am using the following to validate my user which works but i wish to incoperate roles so I used the reg iis to add the standard tables aspnet_UsersInRoles.
What I basically want is the ability to ...
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Static thread safe configuration class
I wrote this class. I would be very interested in your feedback how much thread safe this class is. I know users of this class must still use some kind of synchronization when using this class, but I ...
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Using the ConcurrentBag as an object pool for an ASP.NET application
Is there anything wrong with this implementation of an object pool that will be called from an ASP.NET application?
The object I want to pool has extremely expensive initialization, so currently I ...
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Displaying a new image document in Picturebox
I'm using WinForms and have a picturebox in my form. This program looks in "C:\image\" directory to find a specified image document, in my case a tif file. There is always only one picture in ...
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Code EF 5 causing null reference [closed]
For some reason im getting null execptions on my columns im just wanting to no is my code effience or is their a better way of handling this with MEF and entity state
Used on page load to load a ...
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Links controller in MVC N-layer architecture
I have a common issue that I face in my applications (because I don't know any better) and I want to improve.
This is my usual structure:
Project.UI (MVC Project)
Project.BLL (Class Lib)
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