Updated 13th December 2011 The following open source tools are available: ILSpy from the SharpDevelop team. Thanks to Scott Hanselman’s tweet highlighting the tool. Dotnet IL Editor (a disassembler) IL.View – a .NET Reflector alternative written in Silverlight 4 as an Out-of-Browser Silverlight Application. See this blog post for details.
Basically you need the FolderBrowserDialog class: Prompts the user to select a folder. This class cannot be inherited. Example: using(var fbd = new FolderBrowserDialog()) { DialogResult result = fbd.ShowDialog(); if (result == DialogResult.OK && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(fbd.SelectedPath)) { string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(fbd.SelectedPath); System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(“Files found: ” + files.Length.ToString(), “Message”); } } If you work in WPF you have … Read more
I’ve been experimenting with the various methods .NET provide for URL encoding. Perhaps the following table will be useful (as output from a test app I wrote): Unencoded UrlEncoded UrlEncodedUnicode UrlPathEncoded EscapedDataString EscapedUriString HtmlEncoded HtmlAttributeEncoded HexEscaped A A A A A A A A %41 B B B B B B B B %42 a … Read more
You should use .NET Core, instead of .NET Framework or Xamarin, in the following 6 typical scenarios according to the documentation here. 1. Cross-Platform needs Clearly, if your goal is to have an application (web/service) that should be able to run across platforms (Windows, Linux and MacOS), the best choice in the .NET ecosystem is … Read more
If you only intend to repeat the same character you can use the string constructor that accepts a char and the number of times to repeat it new String(char c, int count). For example, to repeat a dash five times: string result = new String(‘-‘, 5); Output: —–
The ASP.NET Web API has replaced the WCF Web API previously mentioned. I thought I’d post an updated answer since most of these responses are from early 2012, and this thread is one of the top results when doing a Google search for “call restful service C#”. Current guidance from Microsoft is to use the … Read more
Use File.ReadAllText and File.WriteAllText. MSDN example excerpt: // Create a file to write to. string createText = “Hello and Welcome” + Environment.NewLine; File.WriteAllText(path, createText); … // Open the file to read from. string readText = File.ReadAllText(path);
myCars.Select((v, i) => new {car = v, index = i}).First(myCondition).index; or the slightly shorter myCars.Select((car, index) => new {car, index}).First(myCondition).index; or the slightly shorter shorter myCars.Select((car, index) => (car, index)).First(myCondition).index;
A POCO follows the rules of OOP. It should (but doesn’t have to) have state and behavior. POCO comes from POJO, coined by Martin Fowler [anecdote here]. He used the term POJO as a way to make it more sexy to reject the framework heavy EJB implementations. POCO should be used in the same context … Read more
System.IO.Path.GetTempPath() is just a wrapper for a native call to GetTempPath(..) in Kernel32. Have a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364992(VS.85).aspx Copied from that page: The GetTempPath function checks for the existence of environment variables in the following order and uses the first path found: The path specified by the TMP environment variable. The path specified by the … Read more