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Show Continuous Progress with .NET ProgressBar and MarqueeAnimationSpeed

timm — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:55:47 +0000

For some operations such as logging on to a web site or downloading a web page, you may not know how long it will take the operation to finish. So instead of showing a progress bar with a specified percent complete, you can set the .NET ProgressBar to cycle continuously.

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C# Read Text File into String

timm — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:09:24 +0000

Here is the easiest way to read an entire text file into a C# string:

string s = System.IO.File.ReadAllText( path );

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Disable the Ctrl+Tab Navigator Window in Visual Studio 2008

timm — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:04:21 +0000

One of the many changes in the upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 is how Ctrl+Tab switches between open documents in the IDE. Ctrl+Tab used to show the previously viewed document. But in VS 2008, the IDE Navigator window appears as shown below, and you must press Enter to show the previous document. An additional Enter key doesn't sound like a big inconvenience, but if you do this hundreds of times each day like most developers, you will quickly find the extra step irritating. This article describes how to disable the Ctrl+Tab navigator window in Visual Studio 2008.

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Do Not Return Private C# Arrays

timm — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:42:39 +0000

Be careful when returning C# arrays that are private members of an object, as it essentially makes the array contents public, since the client can easily change the array.

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C# Empty Enumerator

timm — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:19:20 +0000

This article provides C# code for an empty enumerator. This generic class can be used to simulate enumeration over an empty collection of any type of objects. Here is the code:

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C# Programmer Salaries

timm — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:02:21 +0000

Indeed Salary Search is an index of salary information extracted from over 50 million job postings from thousands of unique sources over the last 12 months. Many job descriptions don't contain salary information, but there are enough that do to produce statistically significant median salaries. Following are the salaries for C# developer jobs:

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Generic Class: Duplicate Method Overloads

timm — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:21:46 +0000

When two overloads of a method in a generic class are the same (have identical type arguments) as a result of the generic type you specified, which method is called?

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Nested Generics

timm — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:24:27 +0000

Given two generic classes:

public class Type1<T> {}
public class Type2<T> {}

.NET allows you to specify a generic type as the type of another generic type:

Type1<Type2<int>> obj = new Type1<Type2<int>>();

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Multiple Generic IEnumerable<T>

timm — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:28:04 +0000

It's possible to provide multiple generic enumerators for a single class. The trick is that clients must specify which enumerator to use.

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Parse and Sort Comma-Delimited Numbers

timm — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:18:13 +0000

Here is one way to parse and sort a string with comma-delimited numbers:
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