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C_sharp : I have a collection that I first need to filter and then select one out of it , but how the collection should be processed is different depending on some parameters . So I went with 2 delegates , but somehow I should combine them : I tried something like this but it fails because the delegates are n't of matc...
Is it possible to combine delegates of different types ( use return value as parameter ) ?
C_sharp : I have an immutable class that I want to write to and read from a CSV file . The issue is I am getting an exception when reading the CSV despite having mapped the object and set up a configuration that should allow this to work.To do this I am using CsvHelper . The immutable class looks like the following.I h...
CsvHelper and immutable types
C_sharp : I have an interface and a typed factory interface : I Then have an implementation of another interface IDependencyOwner : IDisposable which is implementend by : The DependencyOwner is held a dependency for yet another object , and there can be many implementations of DependencyOwner , which are resolved with ...
TypedFactory Disposes Before Component Using it As a Dependency
C_sharp : I 'm a new programmer , so please excuse any dumbness of this question , how the following code is encapsulating private data ? -I mean , with no restriction logic or filtering logic in the properties , how is the above code different from the folowing one -Is the first code providing any encapsulation at all...
Where 's the Encapsulation ?
C_sharp : I 'm new to C # and have run into a problem with the following code ( I have the target framework as 4.5 and I 've added a reference to System.Numerics ) : When the release build is started with debugging ( F5 in Visual Studio - and a break-point at the end of program so I can see the output ) , I get the fol...
C # 64 bit release build started without debugging behaves differently to when started with debugging ( BigInteger )
C_sharp : I noticed something strange and there is a possibility I am wrong.I have an interface IA and class A : In other class I have this : But I get compilation error.But if I change it to : Everything is fine.Why is it ? <code> interface IA { ... . } class A : IA { ... . } private IList < A > AList ; public IList <...
list.ToArray vs list
C_sharp : I 've run into this several times , so would like to use a real example and get ideas on how more experienced C # developers handle this.I 'm writing a .NET wrapper around the unmanaged MediaInfo library , which gathers various data about media files ( movies , images ... ) .MediaInfo has many functions , eac...
Class design for system which is hierarchical , but not neatly so
C_sharp : Our application can share code . For example user is sharing the html code as followswhich is not in a perfect format ... . Now i need to achieve the ( auto ) code formatting ... i.e . after auto code format click , it should look like So , is there ready made plugin available or is there any way ( s ) to ach...
How to achieve ( auto ) code format selection of any html code via jQuery / C # ? ( Any solution )
C_sharp : I often find I want to write code something like this in C # , but I am uncomfortable with the identifier names : Here we have four different things called `` engine '' : Engine the class . Engine seems like a good , natural name.Engine the public property . Seems silly to call it MyEngine or TheCarsEngine.en...
How would you name these related Property , Class , Parameter and Field in .NET ?
C_sharp : I have created an extension function , which takes the string as input and check for the value and based on the Generic Type , cast it to the destination type and return it , it 's working well.Now the problem is if i pass the input value as empty it should return null , for nullable types , but it simply thr...
Returning null for generic type extension in c #
C_sharp : I 've been reading Tim McCarthy 's awesome book on DDD in .NET . In his example application though , his underlying data access is using SqlCE and he 's handcrafting the SQL inline.I 've been playing with some patterns for leveraging Entity Framework but I 've gotten stuck on how exactly to map the IRepositor...
Is there a suggested pattern for using LINQ between the Model & DataAccess Layers in a DDD based Layered Architecture
C_sharp : I have the following class as a DataSource for a ListBox : The problem is , this by default will use the Value just as a regular character added to a string , for example if I define this class for Tab like this : The string representation will be : But I need it to beHow to do this ? ! <code> class Separator...
Representing a Char with equivalent string
C_sharp : Result : `` Derived : :Foo ( object o ) '' WHY ? ? ? <code> using System ; namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static void Main ( string [ ] args ) { var a = new Derived ( ) ; int x = 123 ; a.Foo ( x ) ; } } public class Base { public virtual void Foo ( int x ) { Console.WriteLine ( `` Base : :Foo...
Why this method called ?
C_sharp : While working on a project I ran into the following piece of code , which raised a performance flag.I decided to run a couple of quick tests comparing the original loop to the following loop : and threw this loop in too to see what happens : I also populated the original list 3 different ways : 50-50 ( so 50 ...
foreach loop List performance difference
C_sharp : The premise of my question , in plain english : A library named Foo depends on a library named BarA class within Foo extends a class within BarFoo defines properties/methods that simply pass-through to BarAn application , FooBar , depends only on FooConsider the following sample : Foo is defined as followsBar...
Why can the C # compiler `` see '' static properties , but not instance methods , of a class in a DLL that is not referenced ?
C_sharp : I 'm using a list to store a pair of hexadecimal values ( eg . in the list AD38F2D8 , displayed as : Value_A : AD 38 F2 D8 ) .My question is should I use a Dictionary < string , string > or should I use Dictionary < string , NewCustomObject > to store the hexadecimal string as a pair of strings . ( Value : [ ...
C # dictionary or just keep using lists ?
C_sharp : I have an extension for ActionResult that adds a toast to TempData when returning a page : and this is InformMessageResult : This works well with and the like , but fails withand the debugger highlightssaying InnerResult not set to an instance of an object.Is there a way I can make this work with Return Page ...
ActionResult extension does n't work with Page ( ) ActionResult method
C_sharp : Let 's say we have this class : If I add an object of this type to a Hashtable , then I can find the object using the identical string.But if the Hashtable contains the string not the object , it fails to find it when I pass the object.I 've tried overriding operator== and it made no difference.Is it possible...
Implicit casting of an object to string , for use in a Hashtable
C_sharp : I have created a little windows service which should delete all occurrences of a certain file name in certain folders.All this code runs in the elapsed-handler of the timer ( intervall=10s ) .When the service is running I can recognize a CPU increase up to 20 % used by that service , so I examined my code , p...
Call to IEnumerable.Count ( ) takes multiple seconds
C_sharp : I want to check if an icon exists in the systray ; as in , if `` X '' application has displayed their systray icon in the systray area.I 've Googled for information about how to do this but I did n't find anything . UPDATE : This what I 've tried in VB.NET translating the C # examples of the url gived by Robe...
Icon exists in systray ?
C_sharp : I have an application which saves documents ( think word documents ) in an Xml based format - Currently C # classes generated from xsd files are used for reading / writing the document format and all was well until recently when I had to make a change the format of the document . My concern is with backwards ...
How should I manage different incompatible formts of Xml based documents
C_sharp : Let 's imagine we have an animation that changes a Rectangle 's width from 50 to 150 when user moves the cursor over it and back from 150 to 50 when user moves the cursor away . Let the duration of each animation be 1 second.Everything is OK if user moves the cursor over the rectangle , then waits for 1 secon...
How to make the duration of an animation dynamic ?
C_sharp : I follow the naming convention of MethodName_Condition_ExpectedBehaviourwhen it comes to naming my unit-tests that test specific methods.for example : But when I need to rename the method under test , tools like ReSharper does not offer me to rename those tests.Is there a way to prevent such cases to appear a...
Is there a way to protect Unit test names that follows MethodName_Condition_ExpectedBehaviour pattern against refactoring ?
C_sharp : Does an IEnumerable have to use Yield to be deferred ? Here is test code which has helped me understand deferred execution and yield . <code> //immediate execution public IEnumerable Power ( int number , int howManyToShow ) { var result = new int [ howManyToShow ] ; result [ 0 ] = number ; for ( int i = 1 ; i...
Does an IEnumerable have to use Yield to be deferred
C_sharp : I read this article about Task.ConfigureAwait which can help to prevent deadlocks in async code.Looking at this code : ( I know I should n't do .Result , But it 's a part of the question ) This will result a deadlock because : The .Result - operation will then block the current thread ( i.e the UI thread ) wh...
await and deadlock prevention - clarification ?
C_sharp : this code that adds registers new EventHandler ( s ) for an event named as NewMail ( the eventargs class is named NewMailEventArgs . ( source : CLR via C # , chapter 11 Events ) What I do n't understand is the do part , first we are assigning newMail to prevHandler , then newMail is changed ( in CompareExchan...
EventHandler : What is going on in this code ?
C_sharp : I am creating a AppDomain using the below codeBut _Domain.DynamicDirectory property does not exist . https : //msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.appdomain.dynamicdirectory ( v=vs.110 ) .aspx clearly says the AppDomainSetup.DynamicBase is used . What could be the reason executing in vstest.console.exe ch...
AppDomain.DynamicDirectory is not generated
C_sharp : Just thought I 'd see if somebody could explain why Anders decided that this is valid ... but this is not ... <code> if ( ... ) //single statementelse ///single statement try //single statementcatch //single statement
Single statement conditionals - why is the pattern not used for other code blocks ?
C_sharp : I have a legacy map viewer application using WinForms . It is sloooooow . ( The speed used to be acceptable , but Google Maps , Google Earth came along and users got spoiled . Now I am permitted to make if faster : ) After doing all the obvious speed improvements ( caching , parallel execution , not drawing w...
Offloading coordinate transformations to GPU
C_sharp : According to the MSDN : Because the Equals and GetHashCode methods on anonymous types are defined in terms of the Equals and GetHashcode of the properties , two instances of the same anonymous type are equal only if all their properties are equal.However , the following code demonstrates the compiler generate...
`` == '' Operator Does n't Behave Like Compiler-generated Equals ( ) override for anonymous type
C_sharp : I am making a ListView inside my C # file . But instead of that I want to add the data I get from sqlite too the xaml file with data binding so I can still edit the layout with xaml . So every response from sqlite needs to be added as label ( < TextCell Text= '' { Binding Name } '' / > ) .My question : How ca...
how can I bind a full response from SQLite ?
C_sharp : Here is some sample code I have basically written thousands of times in my life : And it seems to me C # should already have something that does this in just a line . Something like : But that does n't return the thing ( or an index to the thing , which would be fine ) , that returns the goodness-of-fit value...
Return best fit item from collection in C # 3.5 in just a line or two
C_sharp : Is there a way to change C # object values all at once ... in one line ? So if I have a class Result with string msg and bool isPositive and I already call the constructor somewhere before like var result = new Result ( ) ; can I change values somehow by not entering : But doing something like what you can do...
C # initialized object values
C_sharp : I have 1 Table in Oracle SQL Developer which containts 1 column as Float.Data reader have should return Decimal for oracle float datatype as per the table given here : https : //docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/oracle-data-type-mappingsBut the problem is datareader returns double as datat...
DataReader returning incorrect .net datatype for database table float column
C_sharp : Good day , I need to make function that will iterate on Dictionary that stores variable name and variable ` s new value . After that , I need to update class variable with that value.It works but I want little improvement and I absolutely do n't know if it is possible . As you can see , that function can acce...
FieldInfo update subfield of field
C_sharp : I encountered a behavior in VB.NET today regarding boxing and reference comparison that I did not expect . To illustrate I wrote a simple program which tries to atomically update a variable of any type.Here is a program in C # ( https : //dotnetfiddle.net/VsMBrg ) : The output of this program is : This is as ...
Difference in object boxing / comparing references between C # and VB.Net
C_sharp : As per this msdn documentationIf the current instance is a reference type , the Equals ( Object ) method tests for reference equality , and a call to the Equals ( Object ) method is equivalent to a call to the ReferenceEquals method.then why does following code results in two different result of method calls ...
Why do the results of the Equals and ReferenceEquals methods differ even though variables are reference types ?
C_sharp : I 'm trying to create a small code generator using Roslyn or as it is called now .NET Compiler Platform , prevously I worked with codedom , which was cumbersome but MSDN got a reference , now Roslyn has little documentation and all documentation is focused on code analysis instead of code generation.So my que...
Howto create a const declaration using .NET Compiler Platform
C_sharp : Is there any difference between accessing a property that has a backing fieldversus an auto-property ? The reason I 'm asking is that when letting ReSharper convert a property into an auto property it seems to scan my entire solution , or at least all aspx-files . I ca n't see any reason why there should be a...
Why does ReSharper need to scan all files when converting a property to an auto property ?
C_sharp : there are several threads on value-ranges in enums ( not possible ) .But I have the following problem and search the best solution , where none of the provided once really satisfied me.A specification of a protocol says that byte [ x ] of a message , the messagetype , has the following possible values ( fanta...
C # alternative to enums for a n : m-relation
C_sharp : Ok , so I 'm a bit confused as to what is going on with the following data.We have the following Structure in our application : Portal.Web - An MVC 3 Web App which basically contains all theviews , scripts , css and HTML helper extension methodsPortal.Core - A Class Library which is basically our Business Obj...
Can MVC Views access all projects even though they are n't referenced by the project where the views are ?
C_sharp : I 'm trying to set the image on a TableCell.This is my code : This works perfect while testing on an emulator , but when I try to debug this on my iPhone 5 , I get this error : The error happens on the line where I load the image : <code> public override UITableViewCell GetCell ( UITableView tableView , MonoT...
Error on loading image when testing on iPhone 5
C_sharp : I always thought base.Something was equivalent to ( ( Parent ) this ) .Something , but apparently that 's not the case . I thought that overriding methods eliminated the possibility of the original virtual method being called.Why is the third output different ? <code> void Main ( ) { Child child = new Child (...
Virtual base members not seeing overrides ?
C_sharp : I have read in Jon 's Skeet online page about how to create a thread safe Singleton in C # http : //csharpindepth.com/Articles/General/Singleton.aspxin the paragraph below this code it says : As hinted at before , the above is not thread-safe . Two different threads could both have evaluated the test if ( ins...
Thread safe Singleton : why the memory model does not guarantee that the new instance will be seen by other threads ?
C_sharp : Given a generic type T in C # , I wonder how to acquire type Q , which is equal to T ? for non-nullable T , and T for already nullable T.The question arose from real code . I want to unify access to parameters passed through query string in my ASP.NET application . And I want to specify a default value of the...
`` Promote '' generic type to Nullable in C # ?
C_sharp : When button1 is clicked , the below code is executed which will run a PowerShell script to get the current SQL Server Instances . However when this is run , the result set ( results variable ) has a count of 0 rows from the PowerShell output . When I run the same code in native PowerShell it displays 3 rows w...
Powershell resultset not being picked up in C #
C_sharp : I am trying to build a simple leave request application in windows workflow foundation 4.5 , it throws the following exception as the workflow tries to complete without waiting for approveRequest activity . Two SendParameters objects with same ServiceContractName and OperationName 'ApplyLeave ' have different...
Human based task in windows workflow foundation
C_sharp : I have a stylesheet in my application ~/Content/theme/style.css . It is referenced in my application using standard bundling as such : Now , I have used a Sass compiler ( Libsass ) to allow me to change the output style.css file to a customised user output file as required.So basically I do something like thi...
Overwriting ASP.NET MVC active stylesheet bundle
C_sharp : I am annoyed because I would like to call a generic method from a another generic method..Here is my code : So in fact when I call ToList who is an extension to DataTable class ( learned Here ) The compiler says that Y is not a non-abstract Type and he ca n't use it for .ToList < > generic method..What am I d...
Call a generic method with a generic method
C_sharp : I often work with classes that represent entities produced from a factory . To enable easy testing of my factories easily I usually implement IEquatable < T > , whilst also overriding GetHashCode and Equals ( as suggested by the MSDN ) .For example ; take the following entity class which is simplified for exa...
Should I be using IEquatable to ease testing of factories ?
C_sharp : I have a task to create program that 'll match digits without numbers infront of them . For example : 6x^2+6x+6-57+8-9-90xI 'm trying to use Regex to capture all numbers with + or - before them - but without x afterwards . I 've tried but it seems to capture the '-90 ' from '-90x ' as well . <code> \ [ +- ] (...
Regex - Capture only numbers that do n't have a letter next to them
C_sharp : I ran the following console application : in order to compare the time we need to iterate through the elements of a collection and if it was better to build this collection using a List or an IEnumerable . To my surprise , the result it was 00:00:00.0005504 for the List and 00:00:00.0016900 for the IEnumerabl...
List < T > vs IEnumerable < T >
C_sharp : Is it possible to execute code quick test in VS2010 ? For example I would like to test code below just selecting it in code editor and execute it by passing variables ? <code> public static int GetInt ( object value ) { int result ; Int32.TryParse ( GetString ( value ) , out result ) ; return result ; }
Quick test code option in VS2010
C_sharp : I 'm doing a code review and found a line where one of our developers is creating an object using an empty object initializer like this : I do n't know why he would instantiate this way rather than : Are there any downsides to object instantiation using empty object initializers ? Other than being stylistical...
Are there any downsides to using an empty object initializer ?
C_sharp : Here is my code : I got a process by its id . That worked fineThen I tried to send something to its stdin . That threw an InvalidOperationException . Note : the exception occured when I tried to get the StandardInput , not when I tried to us WriteLine.I believe I know why I got the exception . The process was...
Writeline to already running process
C_sharp : In C # 5 , the closure semantics of the foreach statement ( when the iteration variable is `` captured '' or `` closed over '' by anonymous functions ) was famously changed ( link to thread on that topic ) .Question : Was it the intention to change this for arrays of pointer types also ? The reason why I ask ...
Closure semantics for foreach over arrays of pointer types
C_sharp : On www.dofactory.com I found a real world example of the Factory Pattern . But the code generates a warning in ReSharper about a virtual member call in the constructor.The code causing the warning is the following : In the consuming code , you can then simply use : I do understand why it 's a bad idea to call...
How to prevent Factory Method pattern causing warning about virtual member call in constructor ?
C_sharp : I have a small app with several forms , each of which saves their pane layout during the FormClosing event.Some forms need to remain on screen when the main form is minimized , so they 're opened ownerless with form.Show ( ) , as opposed to form.Show ( this ) .However this affects FormClosing behaviour - when...
How to fire FormClosing for ownerless forms on red X exit ?
C_sharp : I have the following method that I ca n't figure out correct syntax to call : I 'm trying to call it like this : Edited : thx everyone , you guys helped turned on a light bulb in my head . here is what i did : not sure why i even an issue with this . it 's one of those days i guess..thx <code> public T GetAnd...
C # Action < > with Func < > parameter
C_sharp : I have a winforms TabControl and I am trying to cycle through all the controls contained in each tab . Is there a way to add and in a foreach loop or is n't it possible to evaluate more than one group of items ? For example this is what I 'd like to do : ORIs this possible , and if not , what is the next best...
Can I evaluate two groups of items with a foreach loop in C # winforms ?
C_sharp : Let 's take the following code : This will compile , and all is good . However , let 's now remove the this . prefix : In this case , I get a compiler error . I agree this is an error , however it 's the location of the error that confuses me . The error happens on the line : With the message : A local variab...
Weird C # compiler issue with variable name ambiguity
C_sharp : Right now , I am using the following code to create a Shuffle extension : I am looking for a way more faster and efficient way to do this . Right now , using the Stopwatch class , it is taking about 20 seconds to shuffle 100,000,000 items . Does anyone have any ideas to make this faster ? <code> public static...
Improving `` shuffle '' efficiency
C_sharp : I create 2 methods that print x and y 100 times . I want them to run concurrent and I expect the output to be xxxxyxyxyyyxyyxyx ... sthg like that.It does n't print anything . Am I missing some logic here ? <code> using System ; using System.Threading.Tasks ; namespace ConsoleApplication32 { internal class Pr...
Why nothing is printed on the console ?
C_sharp : I just found that not only does this code compile , it seems to split the string on any whitespace.However it did n't show in the intellisense and it 's not on the MSDN page . Is this just an undocumented override ? And is it dangerous to use because of that ? <code> List < string > TableNames = Tables.Split ...
Is this an undocumented override of the Split method ?
C_sharp : Is there any way in a C # iterator block to provide a block of code which will be run when the foreach ends ( either naturally of by being broken out of ) , say to clean up resources ? The best I have come up with is to use the using construct , which is fine but does need an IDisposable class to do the clean...
'Finally ' Block in Iterators
C_sharp : In Australia , A client has been entering `` 1/5 '' as a shortcut for the first day of May . We have just moved from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012.Using the following code in LinqPad : On Windows Server 2008 : dd MMMM1/05/2016 12:00:00 AMOn Windows Server 2012 R2 : MMMM d5/01/2016 12:00:00 AMQues...
DateTimeFormatInfo.MonthDayPattern Has Changed in Windows Server 2012 - How Can I set it back ?
C_sharp : Is there a way to find out all function calls that will execute as part of a Program in C # world ? For example , given this : Can I say through FxCop or some other system get to know CallTrueFunction ? <code> static void Main ( string [ ] args ) { if ( true ) { CallTrueFunction ( ) ; } else { CallFalseFuncti...
.NET Static Analysis -- Guaranteed calls to functions in a program
C_sharp : Why does the following code produce an error ? Error : Operator ' < ' can not be applied to operands of type 'method group ' and 'System.Type'The code looks silly , because it 's extremly simplified from my real example . I just wonder why it does not work exactly . It works if I replace x.getType ( ) with Li...
Why does Select ( x = > ... Cast < x.GetType ( ) > ( ) ) not work ?
C_sharp : Consider the following function : This function returns whether it was able to `` do stuff '' on destination based on input 's content.I 'd like to check if the memory regions `` wrapped '' by input and destination intersect , and if so , throw an exception , since this would corrupt input 's data . How can I...
How can I check if two Span < T > intersect ?
C_sharp : the following code sets the clipboard text on OSX . What is the equivalent to read the clipboard text ? <code> static class OsxClipboard { public static void SetText ( string text ) { var nsString = objc_getClass ( `` NSString '' ) ; var str = objc_msgSend ( objc_msgSend ( nsString , sel_registerName ( `` all...
How to get the clipboard text on OSX using DllImport with c # ?
C_sharp : I have this function I 'm creating 2 Persons class instances : I 'm calling the function with : my Question is : Who actually decide about the T1 type ? ( p ? p2 ? ) Because if the left one is Apple so he checks that the second one is Also an appleand if the second one is Orange - he should check that the fir...
Who actually last decide what is the Generic Type ?
C_sharp : Background : I have a `` Messenger '' class . It sends messages . But due to limitations , let 's say it can only send - at most - 5 messages at a time.I have a WPF application which queues messages as needed , and waits for the queued message to be handled before continuing . Due to the asynchronous nature o...
'await ' does not return , when my Task is started from a custom TaskScheduler
C_sharp : I am working on a role playing game for fun and to practice design patterns . I would like players to be able to transform themselves into different animals . For example , a Druid might be able to shape shift into a cheetah . Right now I 'm planning on using the decorator pattern to do this but my question i...
Design considerations for temporarily transforming a player into an animal in a role playing game
C_sharp : I have data stored in an XML document that describes a linked list ; all nodes except one follow another , so the data looks something like this : ... to give an ordering of 30 , 29 , 34 , 9 , 20 , 12 . I 'm using .NET 's LinkedList class to construct a linked list to reflect this data , but it 's awkward to ...
Most efficient way to construct a linked list from stored data ?
C_sharp : It appears that , in .NET , `` array of enum '' is not a strongly-typed concept . MyEnum [ ] is considered to implement not just IEnumerable < MyEnum > , but also IEnumerable < YourEnum > . ( I did n't believe it at first either . ) So when I go looking through a list for everything that implements IEnumerabl...
Every array of enum implements IEnumerable < EveryOtherEnum > . How do I work around this ?
C_sharp : Does this make sense ? Having a simple classand then instantiating itThe using statement is there just to make sure Test is disposed.When will it be disposed if I just call <code> class Test { public Test ( ) { // Do whatever } } using ( new Test ( ) ) { // Nothing in here } new Test ( )
Using `` using '' statement to dispose
C_sharp : I am new to programming . I am studying chapter 14 of John Sharp 's Microsoft Visual C # Step by Step 9ed.And I do not understand a number of points.The author writes : ... it ( finalizer ) can run anytime after the last reference to an object has disappeared . So it is possible that the finalizer might actua...
C # IDisposable , Dispose ( ) , lock ( this )
C_sharp : I 'm working on a sample PRISM application and I want to use the MEF RegistrationBuilder to create all of my exports . The equivalent of using the ExportAttribute is as follows : However , modules use a different attribute , the ModuleExportAttribute , for example : I 'm not sure how to use the RegistrationBu...
Is it possible to use MEF RegistrationBuilder to create a PRISM ModuleExport ?
C_sharp : Is there any downside of calling GC.SuppressFinalize ( object ) multiple times ? Protected Dispose ( bool ) method of the dispose pattern checks whether it is called before but there is no such check in the public Dispose ( ) method.Is it ok to call the Dispose ( ) method of a MyClass instance multiple times ...
Calling SuppressFinalize multiple times
C_sharp : Whenever I write a new class and add some internal fields , I use an underscore prefix like so : Why did the .NET team decide to create an AppDomain interface with the name _AppDomain ? It just bugs me to see it whenever I type an underscore to get my class level fields in intellisense . Why is n't it IAppDom...
Why is _AppDomain prefixed with an underscore ? Seriously , it bugs me that it is always in my field intellisense
C_sharp : I have a DataTable which I want to check if values in three of the columns are unique . If not , the last column should be filled with the line number of the first appearance of the value-combination.For example , this table : Should lead to this result : I solved this by iterating the DataTable with two nest...
Mark non-unique rows in a DataTable
C_sharp : I 'm doing a class that gets a string of a JSON ( that represents an object ) and I 'm deserializing it using JSON.NET from Newtonsoft . As I do n't know exactly the object that I need to serialize what I 'm doing with the JSON.NET library is to get a Dictionary.The thing is that I 'm processing each property...
Distinguish byte [ ] and string from JSON .NET
C_sharp : I want to do something within the FooDataRepository class once the SaveFooAsync and the all the SaveBarAsync methods have completed . Is there a standard pattern for trying to do a single thing based upon N number of Async calls completing ? <code> public class FooDataRepository { private MyServiceReferenceCl...
Is there a standard pattern to follow when waiting for N number of async methods to complete ?
C_sharp : I 'm trying to set up automated builds on my build agent using MSBuild on the command line . The two projects I 'm focussed on at the moment are a UWP and it 's associated unit test project.To build , I have to use this : Else , I get this error : However , this does not generate a .cer security certificate ....
Can vstest.console.exe run an appx without a security certificate
C_sharp : I am trying to serialize a list of descendants . This is what I have now , that works fine : This works fine and I can serialize both Animals . I wonder If it is possible to create an Attribute class where I can pass the list of animals ( instances ) , and will create for me the XmlArrayItems attributes.In ge...
Xml Serialize List of Descendants
C_sharp : I have some lines of code in c # that Resharper indents like this : Due to my personal coding style , I would like the above to appear with the closing parenthesis ( or brace ) without any indentation , like so : I tried playing with the various options on Resharper , but could n't find any . Is there a way I...
Resharper closing parenthesis indentation on function with multiple arguments
C_sharp : To return a double , do I have to cast to double even if types are double ? e.g.Do I have to cast ( double ) ? <code> double a = 32.34 ; double b = 234.24 ; double result = a - b + 1/12 + 3/12 ;
To return a double , do I have to cast to double even if types are double in c # ?
C_sharp : I use VS2015 , C # .I have a problem with Google login . From my debug configuration ( localhost ) everything works fine . After publishing to the server , google login window simply does n't get opened . And no exception is thrown.Here is my code : Of course I added server 's address to the origin uri and al...
Google login not working after publish
C_sharp : I made a simple async method to call an SQL stored procedure asynchronously.In my console program , I am calling this method 1000 times in a loop , and sleep for 1ms ( Thread.Sleep ) between each call.I start a StopWatch before entering the loop , and stop it when exiting the loop , and display the time spent...
async method not blocking on desktop but blocking on server ?
C_sharp : I have an string ; It must return ipad because ipad is in the first match ipad at the string.In other case Same string array first match to iPhone . <code> String uA = `` Mozilla/5.0 ( iPad ; CPU OS 8_2 like Mac OS X ) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 ( KHTML , like Gecko ) Mobile/12D508 Twitter for iPhone '' ; String [ ]...
How to compare string to String Array in C # ?
C_sharp : I have the following code : Visual Studio highlights this code , saying 'Possible NullReferenceException'by the way , without await Visual Studio does n't show this warningWhy NullReferenceException is possible here ? <code> await _user ? .DisposeAsync ( ) ;
await with null propagation System.NullReferenceException
C_sharp : Using DataTable.Compute , and have built some cases to test : I have changed my code to handle both . But curious to know what 's going on here ? <code> dt.Compute ( `` 0/0 '' , null ) ; //returns NaN when converted to doubledt.Compute ( `` 0/0.00 '' , null ) ; //results in DivideByZero exception
Why 0/0 is NaN but 0/0.00 is n't
C_sharp : Recently I have been researching some conventions in writing functions that return a collection . I was wondering whether the function that actually uses a List < int > should return a List < int > or rather IList < int > , ICollection < int > or IEnumerable < int > . I created some tests for performance and ...
Enumerating List faster than IList , ICollection and IEnumerable
C_sharp : I have a method called OutputToScreen ( object o ) and it is defined as : In my main calling method , if I do something like : But if I do , I am still not sure why x is not boxed in the second approach , I just saw it on a free video from quickcert . Can someone give good explanation ? Here is an additional ...
How passing in x.ToString ( ) into a method which is expecting an object type as opposed to just x prevent boxing ?
C_sharp : Qt has a neat functionality to do timed action with Lambda.An action can be done after a delay with a single line of code : Although I have n't found equivalent in C # .The closest I got was But it 's far from ( visually ) clean . Is there a better way to achieve this ? The use case is sending data on a seria...
How to delay a C # Action like QTimer : :singleShot ?
C_sharp : In .NET generic interface ICollection < T > has Count property itself . But it does not inherit any non-generic interface with a Count property . So , now if you want determine count of non-generic IEnumerable , you have to check whether it is implementing ICollection and if not , you have to use reflection t...
Why generic ICollection < T > does not inherit some non-generic interface with Count property ?
C_sharp : Copy and paste the following into a new console application in VS. Add references to System.Web and System.Web.Services ( I know console apps do n't need these assemblies , I 'm just showing you a snippet of code that does not work in my web application ) .Although both conditions in the if statement are fals...
.net : debugger highlighting line of code not actually being executed
C_sharp : I find myself constantly wanting to pass a Func with a return and no inputs in place of an Action , for examplewhere , I do n't really care about the return value of DoSomething.These types do n't unify , however , and I end up wrapping the callIs there a way to make these types unify without wrapping ? Also ...
Why do n't Func < ... > and Action unify ?
C_sharp : I 'm looking for suggestions on how to write a query . For each Goal , I want to select the first Task ( sorted by Task.Sequence ) , in addition to any tasks with ShowAlways == true . ( My actual query is more complex , but this query demonstrates the limitations I 'm running into . ) I tried something like t...
Problem with LINQ query : Select first task from each goal
C_sharp : I found one unpleasant behavior developing with Visual Studio . It was hanging my machine while compiling C # .I have reduced behavior to the next minimal source codeCompiling with ( using Windows 8.1 Pro N x64 ; csc compiler process is running with 32bits ) sightly modifications do n't produce this behavior ...
C # compiler ( csc.exe ) memory overflow compiling nested types and Linq