Download ReflectionTest.zip There are already many good guides out there illustrating how to construct a weakly coupled system that dynamically loads in modules as needed. In .Net, this can be accomplished using reflection.
Sometimes it is necessary for a main program to invoke other executables during runtime.
Download readfileviareflection.zip In .Net, an XML file or even a CSV file can easily be mapped to an object using proper attributes. Using the reflected object type, such XML or CSV files can easily be deserialized into the corresponding object.
If you have used System.IO.File.Exists in ASP.Net, you probably have found out that unless the account under which ASP.Net is running (e.g. ASPNET for Windows XP and IIS_WPG for Windows 2003 Server, etc) has access to a networked location (either…
In a post (Hyper-Threading and Dual Core Performance Comparison for Computational Intensive Applications) I wrote at the end of last year, I compared multi-threaded scientific application performance of a Pentium 4 processor with hyper-threading enabled and a Pentium D processor,…
Today I was discussing how to convert date strings MMddyyyy (e.g. 03282007) or ddMMyyyy (e.g. 28032007) back to DateTime object.
In production environment, it is not always possible to step through the compiled code using a debugger and thus we rely on error logs to provide insights into the potential causes of bugs.
A couple of days ago, I ran into a mysterious problem when trying to build a web project using MSBuild.
Background In .Net, distributed computing can be done in a number of ways.
In many applications, it is often required to generate one time passwords.
I got a request from my client a couple of weeks ago. For simplicity reasons, I will present it as follows.
A few weeks back, I ran into some issues related to tab stops for certain controls on a windows form not behaving as expected (e.g. a TabStop is set to false but the tab seems to still be trapped in…
Converting from floating point numbers (e.g. double, single) to integers can be tricky.
Download UniquePermutation.zip The numbers of permutations on a set of n elements is n! (see definition).
Download Trie.zip Trie is a tree like data structure that can be used for fast text search.