📅 Week 39
Getting The Number Of Days In A Month In C# & .NET
[C#, .NET]
While idly going through the documentation, or the intellisense of your favourite IDE, you will almost certainly always stumble across a method or property you did not know existed.
Generating Random Booleans In C# & .NET
[C#, .NET]
Over the past week, we have been looking at some of the challenges of generating random values of the various integral types from bytes to unsigned 64 bit integers.
Generating Random Unsigned 64 Bit Integers In C# & .NET
[C#, .NET]
In a previous post, “Generating Random Values For Other Integral Types In C# & .NET” we looked at the challenges of generating random values for other integral types, outlined here in the post “The Other Integer Types”.
Generating Random Unsigned Integers In C# & .NET
[C#, .NET]
In the previous post, “Generating Random Values For Other Integral Types In C# & .NET”, we looked at how to generate random integers for other unsigned integral types.
Generating Random Values For Other Integral Types In C# & .NET
[C#, .NET]
In our last post, “Generating Random 64 Bit Integers In C# & .NET”, we looked at how to generate 64-bit integral values.
Generating Random 64 Bit Integers In C# & .NET
[C#, .NET]
When generating random integers in .NET, the goto is the Next() method of the Random class.
About .NET & Support Cycles
[.NET]
Every year, there is a new release of the latest .NET SDK & runtime, incorporating a year of development, innovation, and improvements.
📅 Week 38
Random Sampling Of Arrays In C# & .NET
[C#, NET]
A problem you might run to in the course of your application development is that given a array of items, sample a number of elements randomly.
Shuffling Arrays In C# & .NET
[C#, .NET]
If you have an array of numbers (of any numeric type) and you need to shuffle it, you have two options.
Restricting Numbers To A Range In C# & .NET
[C#, .NET]
Suppose you were building a digital sensor of some sort.
Getting A Temporary File Name in C# & .NET
[C#, .NET]
In the course of your application development, it is very likely you will run into a situation where you will need a temporary file. Perhaps you are performing I/O work and need to temporarily store data on disk. Or you are using an API that requires files.
Documentation Needs Love - Broken Samples
[Documentation, C#, .NET]
I recently wrote a post on how to send email using C# & the Graph API, and was surprised how much time it took me to get it working due to incomplete documentation.
Documentation Needs Love - The Letter vs The Spirit
[Documentation, .NET]
When learning a new technology or library, the first port of call is usually the documentation.
Documentation Needs Love - Running Samples
[Documentation, C#, .NET]
One of the brilliant innovations when it comes to the .NET documentation is the ability to run (some) samples in your browser.
📅 Week 37
Getting The Downloads Location On macOS In C# & .NET
[C#, .NET]
Our previous post, “Getting The Downloads Location On Windows In C# & .NET”, looked at how to reliably get the Downloads folder on Windows via the Windows API.
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