Category Archives: C#

Boot Camp Puzzle released

Peter announced the Boot Camp puzzle Dave and I worked on. The main prize is a Microsoft Zune, I wonder what colour it is? I can’t compete of course, but I have started a mine’s faster than yours thread on the … Continue reading

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How to rewrite System.Configuration.CommaDelimitedStringCollection wrong.

We produce data in comma delimited strings. So as part of a tool we are writing, I wrote a simple loop to output a list of objects with commas between items. Which we found today would fail when called like … Continue reading

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SleepyQueue

I discovered in my Curse of the Azure Bonds port that I was handling system interrupts related to keyboard input incorrectly. What I needed was a blocking getKey function when keys were buffered. So I wrote some code to solve this … Continue reading

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System.BitConverter

I have been writing a layer around our DCOM interface of the last few days, and today I needed to convert a double to 8 byte stream. Low and behold a new .Net 2.0 helper class System.BitConverter, very useful. I … Continue reading

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Paul Stovell’s Fantastic Binding Oriented Programming Example

Paul Stovell has one of the best examples I’ve seen on how to-do Binding Oriented Programming (BOP). I’ll be honest, I’ve not seen many, in fact I’ve been keeping my eyes open looking for a better way, than the classic … Continue reading

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