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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...

A colleague and I was recently looking at some old ASP.NET WebForms code which generated a potentially large CSV string and returned it in ...

A short while ago I came across an issue with using the Visual Studio gacutil tool on a non-development server. By non-development server, ...

Implicitly typed arrays allow the C# compiler to determine the most appropriate type for an array. The selected type is based on the values ...

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 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...

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've seen a number of API's now that utilise a "fluent" interface (e.g., Fluent NHibernate, Moq etc.). So far, I've ha...

I've started to make an active effort in using JS ON over XML, the main reason being that I find JSON formatted data to be easier on th...

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...