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I was recently able to take advantage of a useful Microsoft SQL Server feature that enabled me to call a .NET library class method from a s...

This blog post was written for the Lockheed Martin Insight blog, sharing here for the external audience. Last month I started the Plurals...

Earlier this week I took and passed the Microsoft 70-483 exam. In this post, I'll provide some insight into my preparation. The 70-48...

The following code snippet shows how to convert from a CSV string to a List using the string class Split method. const   string  Colour...

To convert from a string to an integer type you can use the Convert class as shown in the code snippet below. The Convert class contains a ...

To start a program in C#, you can use the Process class. The Process class has a static method called Start which accepts a filename as a ...

Continuing with my new C# "how-to" theme, the code snippet below shows how to create a text file and write content to it using the...

This is the first of a series of C# "how to" posts. The following C# code snippet shows how to read a text file line-by-line using...

I was fortunate enough to recently obtain a Pro license for NDepend . If you've never heard of NDepend, it is a powerful .NET code analy...

Quick post, a colleague of mine recently circulated a very useful Microsoft link (below) which allows you to browse through the .NET framew...

I had a requirement to output some data as part of a number of pages in an e-commerce site. This data would change from page to page and typ...

I caught the end of a conversation about the Soundex algorithm at work the other day which inspired me to write an implementation of it in C...

Earlier this week I made use of the Chain of Responsibility design pattern to solve a fairly straight-forward problem. I've always been ...

A few weeks ago I had a requirement to convert an Int32 value ( base 10 or decimal) to its binary representation as a string. I encapsulate...

I use an Enumeration type whenever I need to define a set of named constants that can be assigned to a variable. Enums are easier on the bra...

Over the past few weeks, I've needed to write a number of small "throw-away" console applications. These applications processe...