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Archive for the ‘C# 4.0’ Category

Multithreading in C# .NET 4.5 (Part 2) – CodeProject

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/10

Always good having a reference article at hand: [WayBackMultithreading in C# .NET 4.5 (Part 2) – CodeProject

via: [WayBackBest C# Article of September 2016 PureNsanity – Multithreading in C# .NET 4.5 (Part 2)Runner UpSnesh Prajapati – Factory Patterns – Simple Factory … – CodeProject – Google+

–jeroen

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Great diagram on composing a LINQ query – via Mastering C# – CodeProject

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/17

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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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.

–jeroen

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How to secure memory? – Medo’s Home Page

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/15

Sometime you might want to protect your data in memory – the greatest example is when dealing with anything related to passwords. It is simply not smart to keep that data around in a plain-text. In .NET there are multiple methods you can use for this purpose, starting with SecureString, ProtectedMemory, and my favorite ProtectedData.…

Source: How to secure memory? – Medo’s Home Page

via: Found this via +Ilya S a post from +Josip Medved – Stuff like this should be way built into an OS, and RTL’s should have a secureMalloc()… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

–jeroen

 

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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:

–jeroen

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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

–jeroen

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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 [WayBackexamples [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

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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):

  1. adding nillable="true" will convert from a regular type to a nullable type.
  2. adding minOccurs="0" will add boolean …Specified properties in the generated C# for each element.
  3. you can have both nillable="true" and minOccurs="0" in an element which gets you a nullable type and a …Specified property.

Note I’m not considering fixed or default here, nor attributes (that have use instead of minOccurs/maxOccurs, but do not allow for nillable) nor larger values of maxOccurs (which both xsd.exe and xsd2code regard as unbounded).

From the above, XML has a richer type system than C#, so in XML there are subtle a differences between:

  1. an explicit nil in the XML element
  2. the XML element being absent
  3. the XML element being empty.

Hopefully later more text and examples to show how to actually work with this.

Delphi related to minOccurs:

Note that xsd2code.codeplex.com (unlike XmlGen#) has at least two forks at github:

From the specs:

–jeroen

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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.”.


using System;
public class Test
{
public static void Main()
{
int? nullableInt = null;
int nowInt = (int)nullableInt;
}
}

–jeroen

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