Adding Fav Icons to your MVC 5 Application
Fancy having a nice fav icon on your web application as that finishing touch? It’s easier than you think. Let’s assume you have an image in mind. If not, quickly…
Category Archives: c#
Web Config Shenanigans
One of the things that I love about IT is that it (small this time) is like a huge puzzle. I’ve probably said this before, but I get enormous satisfaction…
The Curious Case of the Sneaky Spaces
One of the things I like best about my job is the puzzle solving aspect of it. As a huge fan of the Arthur Conan Doyle books, I often think…
Programming Pearl – Generating k Random Integers
I mentioned in a previous post that I have begun reading Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley. There’s so much to say about this book but one solution in particular really…
Reading PDF Form Data in C#
Like many of you (yes, I know who you are), I’ve used Adobe’s Acrobat Portable Document Format – PDF – many times. How can you not? When it used to be…
The Little Things
I remember once being told a long time ago that someone famous said that the littlest things mean the most. They were talking about people and how those small gestures…
ASP.NET Website #6: Guest Book
This is the sixth website of my project to create 30 ASP.NET websites, highlighting various aspects of this amazing technology! For this project, I wanted to do something with databases…
ASP.NET Website #5: Currency Converter
This is the fifth website of my project where I practise using elements of ASP.NET in order to exercise my world-changing ideas 🙂 Looking at it now, you might think I had…
Adding an ASMX Service in Visual Studio 2013
This is a brief (and simple) introduction on how to add an ASMX service to your Visual Studio C# project. Before you begin, however, be aware that this type of…
Using C# Delegates to Translate Text Into Geek Speak!
Much like my article on using extension methods, I want to talk about another cool feature of C# known as delegates, but to make it more useful, I want there…
C# Conundrum – Try/Fail/Return
What do you think this does?
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class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine("Return Value = {0}", DummyFunction()); } static int DummyFunction() { try { return 1; } finally { return 2; } } } |
The finally block is guaranteed to run after the try block, but….and it’s a BIG but, hasn’t it already returned a value? First, have a…
Creating an Extension Method in C# – ROT 13
I was listening to a podcast today featuring Troy Hunt on Dot Net Rocks where he talked about how he had once written a question on Stack Overflow about what…
ASP.NET Website #4: Jon Skeet Quotes
This is the fourth website of my project where I practise using elements of ASP.NET in order to exercise my frivolous ideas! For this one, I wanted to do something involving…
Pluralsight Video Review – C# from Scratch Parts 1 and 2
C# from Scratch Part 1 and Part 2 by Jesse Liberty (3h 11m and 1h 54m) This is the first “Beginner” video that I have seen on Pluralsight that I think…
ASP.NET Website #3: Maze
This is the third in my series of creating ASP.NET web applications in order to learn more about this exciting technology 🙂 It’s been a little while coming but that’s…