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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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Safe async API code
I'm pretty new to async/await and I want to ensure that the code I've written is going to be safe and not cause any deadlocks.
The RestClient in the code will be ...
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Excel-to-JSON parser
I just wanted to build a simple converter from an XLS Excel file to JSON. I have predefined JSON format. All fields except of two - are just simple mapping from Excel to JSON. The two fields have a ...
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Optimizing timeline generation
I have a bunch of processes that are being executed on different virtual machines. All of those processes have a StartDate, ...
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Instantiating different kinds of error records for a database operation
I've written code to be called from Powershell like so:
Rename-DatabaseUser -Name 'someuser' -NewName 'somenewuser'
I'm wondering if there's another way I can ...
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Opinion on performance increase of a robot
Background
A prototype of a firefighting robot has been done recently based on an Arduino microcontroller. It has two servos, one laser LED and 2WD motors. The desktop application is done in C# to ...
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c# How to fetch data from database and display it on textbox AUTOMATICALLY [on hold]
So the code below works but I use a button, and I have to press the button everytime to fetch information. Does anyone have any advice on what should I do to automatically fetch information from ...
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Recursive directory copy program
A little while ago, I had to write a little C# application to recover my HDD data (full context on this question)
To answer my problem I developed a console application which job was to recursively ...
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Guidence on the use of Ninject as IoC Container in a WinForms MVC Application
I am a relatively experienced WPF developer who has had good exposure to MVVM. I have been developing legacy WinForms applications for a while and have recently been asked to fully re-write a large ...
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Static classes / methods are getting bigger, is this a code smell? [on hold]
Recently I've observed that static classes/methods have been getting updated continuously to support more features (agree, already breaking Open-closed principle).
Initially when it was started the ...
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Uploading .dll files to a local computer
I have created a simple application that has grown a little bit. Though most likely it won't grow anymore, I have looked back and I realized that it has become a little monster in terms of how many ...
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Processor that would process an Object (say a message you received)
Sorry for being a little abstract but I have attempted to concoct something simple but it seems to spiral out of control. So I was thinking maybe I am taking the wrong approach.
Here's what I am ...
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Create Xml to string serializer
I don't want to serialize everything. I created a custom attribute DoNotSerializeAttribute. If some property in info contain ...
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Milking a COM type library: “fun” with COM reflection
Once upon a time, there was a duck that wanted to know where and how user code was calling into the VBA standard library and Excel object model. To match the rest of its API, the poor little duck had ...
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Strategy pattern using an abstract class and an interface
I have implemented some sort of the strategy pattern using an abstract class and an interface:
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C# Reduce repetitive code in derived methods
i have interface with 2 functions. This interface is being inherited by an abstract class which implements just 1 of those functions the other 1 is left to be implemented by the derived classes of the ...
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Age Calculations (First Draft)
I found another user asking for an application to be written, it sounded simple enough and a good way to "work out" my C# "muscles" and try to get them into a better "shape". I really liked the idea ...
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Recursion task - optimization
I need your review and suggestions how to make this code better. I'm just learning recursion and sure that this solution is not ideal.
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Write a function that given an input array of ...
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Tree processing for series and parallel execution
I have a tree processing application where some of the nodes are "executed" in parallel and some in series. I managed to do this but I feel that the solution looks a bit "hacked up" and can be ...
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Service-Repository pattern with IoC, NPoco micro-ORM and unit tests
I'm trying to build a Web API using best practices, based on a simple proof-of-concept using students.
My goal is to build the system using:
Onion Architecture to seperate concerns.
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Adding a row to the bottom of a ListView box [on hold]
This code adds a row to a ListView box at the first row and scrolls down:
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Using the A* algorithm to search a graph generated from a grid
Following on from my previous question, I finally got round to actually doing the A* search for the Graph<MapTile>. The changes to the code from the previous ...
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Visibility of abstract factory's implementation's product [migrated]
I'm implementing a factory like this:
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Defining what combination the user have in Poker
I'm developing a C# Poker app and I currently use the modulus and the divide operator % , / and dividing by 4 because there are 4 cards of the same type but with ...
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Unity Repository Best Practices
I am now developing a product, which will use Unity & Repositories when it comes to data management. I will demonstrate on a simple example. What we want to do, ...
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Update method using timer in WinForms Poker app
I have a WinForms Poker app that needs to update some stuff and im doing this by using a timer:
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Singleton implementation of Cache Dependency Manager
I am trying to implement a singleton CacheDependencyManager, by combining this CacheDependencyManager from Steve Greatrex with a singleton pattern from Jon Skeet (example 6).
I'd really appreciate ...
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Displaying of Data in Application
I've just started creating a Menu/Order Application for the fun of it. Basically it's a program where a user can order certain products off of a menu. I am creating this in Unity3D so I don't have ...
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Poker app in C#
I am developing a poker application using C#. It is almost done, and I'm looking for improvements. One of the things I wonder is whether I should change my method that checks if the player has a ...
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Simple dictionary storing/viewing application
A TreeView on the left which just displays a list of files saved by the application. A DataGridViewon the right to display data ...
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Using Linq instead of multiple foreach loops
A project I'm working on often has lists within lists within lists etc. The original author often uses complicated linq expressions, but when adapting them I mostly get hopelessly bogged down and ...
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How to refactor this monstrous IRC data parser? [closed]
I am participating in open source project and saw monstrous method with 1500 lines of code, full of conditions and cases. The surrounding code is full of code smells.
Moster Method
(No copy the ...
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Newtonsoft Json helper class
I've written the following helper class to help serializing objects to and from Json.
I would appreciate some feed back on the style of the class.
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Select fields from a form by ID or Xpath and fill its value
I'm writing a program/tests in C# using Selenium and Chrome web driver. Everything works well, however I would like to simplify the code and make it object-oriented. I thought about extracting some ...
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Claims athorization service usage (increment 2) [on hold]
Is the following API of a claims authorization service ok, from the point of view of usability?
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Insert rows in the datagridview with a dictionary
I would like to improve the function below without calling twice InserisciRigaNote.
Before I fill my dictionary. When I compare ...
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Object factory from interface types
I have a library that defines a bunch of ISprite interfaces, like IPieceSprite and ...
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AutoFill WinForm by Paste from an Excel Row [closed]
I tried my best to find a better way to copy a data row from Excel, and have the user paste it directly in the WinForm by a click of a button. The following function can be called from any suitable ...
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FizzBuzz without hard-coded logic checks
I'm a self-taught (on the job) programmer, always looking for ways to expand my skills. Seeing all the FizzBuzz examples with hard-coded logic checks made my head hurt, so I thought I'd try my hand at ...
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Web-service for wiki-like movie database
I'm making a web-service for an app with a (partially) crowdsourced movie database.
These two functions allows users to add and remove which genres a movie is liked to, and get the log of whom have ...
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Add the first non-null item from one list to another list
Given these two methods, is it defensible that one is better than the other?
In what terms? Performance? Elegance? Readability?
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Singleton Service Initialization [on hold]
Is it ok to have a Singleton Service with Initialization like this?
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Disable and enable text boxes according to the radio button click
Below is the code of GPA calculator in c#. I am feeling like the code that I write and format are quite long. I am very thanks if anybody have an idea on how to improve the code and make it shorter ...
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Claims authorization service usage
I'm doing an AuthorizationService. I'm not sure how to do the usage interface of this service, so that it's practical and handy. It doesn't necessarily has to be an ...
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Building a simple REST service using Web API 1.0
Friends,
It's been several years since I last worked with the ASP.NET Web API framework. Even then I had developed with it minimally.
I have a requirement for a service that will allow for the ...
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A more efficient way of extracting a name from a string?
Here is some code that reads Active Directory to get a person's manager and parses the result for the managers name. It omits the remaining information. I was just wondering if there might be some ...
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MultiThreaded TCP Server with high CPU usage
I wrote simple C# TCP Server application and my program use a lot of cup, i was wondering anyone can review my code and would be grateful for any hints and suggestion.
This is my code.
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