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One feature of C# that I find useful is the support of implicitly or explicitly implementing interfaces. For example, if we have a simple ...

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...

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...

A useful but often not thought about feature is that many programming languages, including C#, support short-circuit evaluation of Boolean ...

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'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 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...