.NET Tips and Tricks

It is very important to be able to dynamically control the behavior of .NET applications and to keep track of some of the aspects of the application (i.e. how the application is performing, what errors are produced during runtime, how the application performs at peak times, how to dynamically alter the behavior of the application, etc).

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This is a very simple question with a not so simple answer…

Forget for a second about .NET.
If someone asks you how much is 1.000025 – 0.000025 your answer will probably be “1″ and correct. An easy question, right ?

Now, let’s go back to .NET and check if our calculations are correct.

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Well, this is a nice one. We all familiar with incremental operators, but from what i saw yesterday… well, there is no need to give a developer some tricky assignment so he could find a way to make some bugs.

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Once in a while we need to return data from SQL as delimited string of values and not as rows. There are several ways to do that, but personally i like the next one.

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As we know we have two ways to set a variable value to an empty string.
We can just set it to empty quotes “” or set it to string.Empty, but what is the difference and is there one at all ?

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I’ve noticed that most of the c# developers i’am talking to, know exactly what “public”, “private”, “protected” and “internal” access modifiers mean and how to use them, but when it comes to “protected internal” they start guessing the answer and it’s never the right one.

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Unusual software bugs are a class of software bugs that are considered exceptionally difficult to understand and repair. There are several kinds, mostly named after scientists who discovered counterintuitive things.

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The following are two simple questions related to C# inheritance.
Please try to give an answer without executing the code, otherwise where is the fun part ?
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Svchost.exe is the most mysterious process in Windows XP/Vista. Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).

The authentic svchost.exe file is located in C:\Windows\System32, but numerous viruses and trojans use the same file and process name to hide their activities.
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IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. Read more…