One of the best to graphs diagrams of LINQ I know is in Mastering C# – Lecture Notes Part 2 of 4 – CodeProject [WayBack]
The LINQ explanation in that article [WayBack] is top notch as well. Thanks Florian Rappl [WayBack]!
–jeroen
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Great diagram on composing a LINQ query – via Mastering C# – CodeProject
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/17
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MiloszKrajewski/LibZ: the alternative to ILMerge (Resolve instead of merge assemblies)
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/30
ILMerge has all sorts of drawbacks with things like XAML, WPF, NHibernate, dynamically loaded assemblies and reflection.
Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition | Microsoft Press blog has an interesting approach based on adding a callback to the AppDomain’s ResolveAssembly event with some steps so you can embed assemblies as resources which you then – unlike ILmerge- dynamically resolve.
Those steps require a bit of manual labour which is taken away by MiloszKrajewski/LibZ: LibZ, the alternative to ILMerge.
The repository on github even compresses your assembly resources.
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.NET/C# some links on querying the ActiveDirectory
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/15
Without dsquery installable, I had to query an ActiveDirectory spanning two domains.
Here are some links that helped:
- Howto: (Almost) Everything In Active Directory via C# – CodeProject.
- c# – How to query Active Directory for all groups and group members? – Stack Overflow
- c# – Difference between PrincipalSearcher.FindAll() and GroupPrincipal.FindByIdentity() – Stack Overflow
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Unity IoC container: tips, tricks and dirty hacks
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/03
The #Fellows | Unity IoC container: tips, tricks and dirty hacks post is a very readable and to-the-point introduction to Unity IoC focussing on Dependency Injection. Implementation details of various IoC/DI frameworks differ, so some keywords:
- Container
- InjectionConstructor
- InjectionProperty
- Inversion of Control
- Named registration (or keyed registration)
- PerResolveLifetimeManager
- Register
- RegisterType
- Resolve
- ResolvedParameter
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Yes Dorothy, the .NET System.Array Class can throw you a NotSupportedException
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/21
It’s been in the System.Array class forever, but remarkably few people do know that it can throw you a NotSupportedException (for instance when calling Add, Insert, Remove, etc).
It does because it implements IList, but not all methods implemented from IList are valid.
And it also indicates that, as the IList Properties allows for IsFixedSize to return false.
A similar case is there for IsReadOnly: then you cannot even modify the values.
Ever since I started teaching .NET/C# classes almost 15 years ago, I warned:
beware when you use IList as not everybody implements all methods.
–jeroen
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.NET/C#: two ways of creating an empty array
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/18
Empty arrays are not used often as arrays usually are about the presence data, not about the absence.
Here are two ways based on the int data type in C# (the original [WayBack] examples [WayBack] are using string, but since string itself is also a kind of array…):
Specify a size of zero:
int[] a = new int[0];
Specify an empty initialisation:
int[] a = new int[] { };
Though many people think arrays are a thing of the past, I think it is one of the first generic types and have their place. For one, enumerating over arrays using foreach is a lot faster in many environments than enumerating over other data types. Another thing is that the fixed nature of arrays can be very beneficial in setting constraints.
That’s why I like the balanced view from Eric Lippert [WayBack] in Arrays considered somewhat harmful – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs [WayBack]
–jeroen
via:
- How to initialize empty array in C# – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
- .net – How and when to abandon the use of arrays in C#? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
- .net – Performance of Arrays vs. Lists – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
- c# – Faster enumeration: Leveraging Array Enumeration – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
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C#, XSD.exe, xsd2code and generating nullable fields+properties from an XSD with and without Specified fields/properties
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/27
It comes down to these cases for XML elements having maxOccurs="1" (which the default for maxOccurs):
- adding
nillable="true"will convert from a regular type to a nullable type. - adding
minOccurs="0"will add boolean …Specified properties in the generated C# for each element. - you can have both
nillable="true"andminOccurs="0"in an element which gets you a nullable type and a …Specified property.
Note I’m not considering
fixedordefaulthere, norattributes(that haveuseinstead ofminOccurs/maxOccurs, but do not allow for nillable) nor larger values ofmaxOccurs(which both xsd.exe and xsd2code regard asunbounded).
From the above, XML has a richer type system than C#, so in XML there are subtle a differences between:
- an explicit
nilin the XML element - the XML element being absent
- the XML element being empty.
Hopefully later more text and examples to show how to actually work with this.
- XML Schema nillable=”true” vs minOccurs=”0″ | Dimuthu’s Blog.
- Web services tip: Representations of null in XML Schema.
- c# – Nullable value with xsd.exe genereated class – Stack Overflow.
- Simon Fell > Its just code > Nullable and XxxSpecified.
- Knucklebones: How to NOT use XSD.EXE (it mentions xsd2code which is maintained and XmlGen# which is not maintained).
- Nullable type and XML xsd.exe tool – .NET Development – Windows Tech (xsd.exe .NET DataSets code generation don’t support Nullable).
- c# – Comparison of XSD Code Generators – Stack Overflow.
- .net – Serialize nullable type to optional non-nillable element – Stack Overflow.
- c# – Setting minOccurs=0 in a WSDL using “Specified” pattern not working – Stack Overflow.
- c# – Is it valid to set nillable=true and use the default property in an XML document? – Stack Overflow.
- xml – nillable and minOccurs XSD element attributes – Stack Overflow.
- Web services tip: Representations of null in XML Schema.
- XSD tool appends “Specified” to certain properties/fields when generating C# code – Stack Overflow: watch for semantics differences between C# and XML.
- Using the *Specified Properties in Exchange 2010.
- Name of the blog | Xml Serialization.
- c# – Nullable value with xsd.exe genereated class – Stack Overflow.
Delphi related to minOccurs:
- [WayBack] Problem with optional parameters in a remote function – delphi
- Wayback Machine QC 24056 is unavailable
- [WayBack] QualityCentral 73096 – Reported – Missing empty line in auto-generated code for node collections
- [RSP-16448] WSDL Importer has problems with tags in berlin – Embarcadero Technologies
- [RSP-19690] XML Data Binding Wizard creates wrong datatype – Embarcadero Technologies
- [WayBack] Delphi XML binding wizard and optional elements – Stack Overflow
Note that xsd2code.codeplex.com (unlike XmlGen#) has at least two forks at github:
From the specs:
- XML Schema Part 0: Primer Second Edition.
- XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition.
- XSD.exe XML Schema Binding Support:
- XML Schemas (XSD) Reference:
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Easy way to generate “System.InvalidOperationException: Nullable object must have a value.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/07
Easy way to generate “System.InvalidOperationException: Nullable object must have a value.”.
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| public class Test | |
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| int? nullableInt = null; | |
| int nowInt = (int)nullableInt; | |
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| } |
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Writing tests for http / https request: Postman, SoapUI, Advanced REST client.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/21
I’m using these Chrome Extensions for most of the http / https call mockups, and after that put them in SoapUI (which despite the name also does REST and has come a long way sinceSource: SoupUI – as sometimes that is the only thing that works):
- Postman – REST Client – Chrome Web Store.
- Postman – REST Client Packaged app – Chrome Web Store.
- Advanced REST client – Chrome Web Store.
You can get both Postman versions through GetPostman.com as well.
–jeroen
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Did you know… How to change the build order for your solution? – #333 – Sara Ford’s Weblog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/08
Boy I wish I had known this earlier. Like years ago…
In the Solution Explorer:
- Right Click Project
- Project Build Oder.
- Use the dialog to change the build order
It is next to the “Project Dependencies” in this image from Sara Ford:
Sara Ford: change “Project Build Order”
In the resulting dialog, you can change the build order within your solution.
This can be very useful when – for various reasons – you cannot have Project Level dependencies for an assembly, but have to have Assembly Reference dependencies for individual assemblies.
At a client I bumped into this, and this dialog was a life saver for us.
Others have used it because some Visual Studio versions miscalculate the dependencies.
–jeroen
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