Archive for the '.NET' Category
C# Perf improvement data types or using Linq is faster?
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Recently I was asked a simple code to improve the performance, and at first I couldn’t see it but as you know your brain starts working when you aren’t thinking of the problem anymore. (It happen to me when I was driving) Anyway the problem on hand was there is a for loop and when [...]
Using LINQ to refactoring code into single responsibility principle SRP
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Was going through some legacy code recently and found a big for loop that had multiple switch statement inside. So being that I hate something that is fairly large, every method should be small and concise, I went along to refactor it. This code is generic so you might see something like this in your [...]
Using Linq to refactor code
Monday, December 17th, 2012
Here is some poorly written code that I had to review today and modify. I have removed the domain of the code and renamed the variables, so that it remains anonymous, but the just of the code is still intact. ?View Code CSHARP1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [...]
C# detect inuktitut characters Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
Here is a quick way to detect if a text is in Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic in C#. It is just an extension method that would detect if your string is in that range by using regex. ?View Code CSHARP1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 public [...]
Command Pattern with Notification Event Delegates
Monday, September 19th, 2011
Here is a nice little code I did recently, where the Command Pattern is used with a notification observer like pattern. First of the Command Pattern, a simple interface for task with an execute method ?View Code CSHARP1 2 3 4 5 6 7 public interface ITask { /// <summary> /// Execute the task /// [...]
Building an installer and displaying Data Link Properties Dialog Box for connection string
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
So was hacking a new installer and wanted to display the data link properties dialog, for building a connection string. Here is what I have found out by playing with it. One has to add the reference to ADODB.DLL (from .NET reference) and Microsoft OLE DB Service Component 1.0 Type Library from the COM tab [...]
NET 4, VS2010 install fails on XP SP3 machine “Fatal error during installation”
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
So I had this issue at work had to install on xp machine, dont ask why but just had to Thus I was stuck installing vs2010, I went and downloaded .net 4 standalone And was having the same issues. And went through the logs and found the error message was due a registry key (aren’t [...]
My talk on WatiN , SpecFlow, BDD, Code and additional material
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Thanks to everyone who came out for the Ottawa .Net Community talk yesterday, I had a blast. I would like to thank everyone who came out for the talk. Here is my presentation WatiN – Web Application Testing on Prezi You can find the code on github https://github.com/taswar/ODNC-WatiN-And-SpecFlow-Demo-Code Additional Resources Here are some additional information [...]
Automapper: Mapping Objects Part 7 of 7 (Startup Registration)
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
In this last part of the series I wanted to talk about how to register automapper at startup of your web application, in doing so it would help speed things up with automapper. There are many ways to do it, the easiest way is to just have a method inside Global.asax.cs file in your Application_Start [...]
Automapper: Mapping objects Part 6 of 7 (CustomFormatter)
Monday, March 14th, 2011
In this part I will show how we can use a customer value formatter to format our mapped data into single “Number of Order:” and plural “Number of Orders:”. First the Domain and Dto (data transfer object) ?View Code CSHARP1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [...]
