Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/01
For a project, I needed to strip the potential Path.DirectorySeparatorChar and Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar.
Where Path.Combine will combine two paths and insert the DirectorySeparatorChar, I could not find the opposite, so I wrote this little piece of code:
using System.IO;
namespace BeSharp.IO
{
public class PathHelper
{
public static string RemoveTrailingDirectorySeparators(string directory)
{
string result = directory.TrimEnd(Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar, Path.DirectorySeparatorChar);
return result;
}
}
}
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/29
Thanks Uncle Bob Martin for posting this.
I’ve been trying (with increasing success: it takes time to get this all right) to practice XP (through various name changes) as much and wide as possible since almost 14 years, and only the last few years it is starting to be common practice for many more people.
take a moment to reflect back on 1999. A time when Kent Beck wrote a ground-breaking book. A book that changed everything. Look back and remember: Extreme Programming; and recognize it as the core of what we, today, simply think of as:
Good Software Practice.
–jeroen
via: Extreme Programming, a Reflection | 8th Light.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/26
My mental association with getting LogicalDrives was always the System.IO namespace, so I’ve always used Directory.GetLogicalDrives Method (System.IO) .
Recently I bumped into Environment.GetLogicalDrives Method (System), and discovered it has been available for the same time: since .NET 1.x.
I was not so much amazed that these methods return exactly the same data, but that they have identical code. Not just a single call to some common code: their code is the same, line by line. In .NET 4, they have the code below. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/25
StackOverflow user Joe (sorry, no last name) helped me big time by answering my question on Business logic shared by ASP.NET / WinForms: find the location of the assembly to access relative files to it.
Before showing the code at the bottom of this blog post, let me explain the question in more detail:
Basically I was in the midst of refactoring some ‘inherited’ business logic code that – before refactoring – for the ASP.NET side needs to be initialized with an absolute path, but on the WinForms / WPF side only with a relative path to a GetExecutingAssembly directory.
To ease xcopy deployment, I wanted all configuration settings to be relative. But I hadn’t found a common means for these platforms to obtain a directory usable as a root for accessing relative files.
That way I could put identical settings in both the Web.config and App.config, heck even generate them based on a common fragment, whithout having to hard-code absolute path names.
I knew about Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly, but in ASP.NET that location is not where the web site is (both IIS and the WebDevelopment server make use of temporary locations to store the assemblies).
ASP.NET does have Server.MapPath and HostingEnvironment.MapPath, but I didn’t want to make the business logic depend on ASP.NET.
Joe came up with this solution, which works dandy: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/22
Cool stuff: DelphiSpec library, inspired by Cucumber. It runs on top of DUnit.
via DelphiSpec Library Announce « Роман.Янковский.me.
A similar one in the .NET realm: SpecFlow – Pragmatic BDD for .NET.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/18
Thanks StackOverflow user splattne (Stefan Platnner) for explaining the differences between the various parameters you can pass to Server.MapPath, and giving some very clear examples.
You can also use it with HostingEnvironment.MapPath, which has the added benefit that it doesn’t require HttpContext (for more detail on it, see Working With HttpContext.Current).
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/17
The Mono.Options single .cs source file seems very well suited for arguments parsing of (especially) console application:
https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/master/mcs/class/Mono.Options/Mono.Options/Options.cs
so it is on my research list, like some other .NET/C# based command line parsing libraries (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/10
Some things you have done for ages, are already phrased so nicely, the only thing you can do is quote.
Thanks Dave Coulter:
You can attach the Visual Studio debugger to a process by:
Debug > Attach to Process > Attach Read the rest of this entry »
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