Category: .NET

Storing data in a SecureString has one big advantage – if you try to use the same files on another PC or account, Windows will reject them and you will have to sign in again. And nobody can get to the password either, unless you happen to display it somewhere in the application, worst of …

Today I tried to reuse the image splitting feature in my program ShrinkerImages. Only with a single image, namely a photo from my Lumia 435. However, it was the first time I actually came across an image with a lower DPI than the usual 96. If an image has a DPI other than 96 (I …

Add references to these 4 assemblies to your console application: PresentationCore, System.Drawing, System.Xaml and WindowsBase. This is how you add the PresentationCore assembly, just press OK! The file(s) containing these classes must include the following using directives. They are the ones present in Program.cs after creating a console application, plus the ones I added via …

See how easily you can remove all formatting (HTML) from a text – just call this method: C#public static string StripTagsRegex(string source) { return Regex.Replace(source, "<.*/?>", string.Empty); } And how does it work? < and > are the boundary characters. . means any character, including digits, and * means that this character must occur at least 0 times. These …

From what I have just found online, you basically have 2 options. Either through the registry or through WMI. You will write shorter code with WMI, but the registry will find more programs. Loading through WMI is also slower. Just for comparison, in my case it found 189 programs in the registry, 155 through WMI, …

First of all, it should be said that this is possible only with paid hosting plans. I have the Developer plan myself and it works there. I do not have any Basic web hosting available (so I have no way to verify whether it works there), only free hosting plans, and there it does not …

If your Windows is set to the USA style of date display, time, currency and numbers, the methods below will return the following: ToLongDateString(): Friday, July 27, 2012 ToLongTimeString(): 9:26:49 AM ToShortDateString(): 7/27/2012 ToShortTimeString(): 9:26 AM ToString(): 7/27/2012 9:26:49 AM If it is set to Czech / Czech Republic, you get this instead (the time …

C#NameTable nameTable = new NameTable(); XmlNamespaceManager namespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(nameTable); namespaceManager.AddNamespace("atom", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"); string c = @"F:\Mona\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\LinqLearn\LinqLearn\sunamoblog.wordpress.2012-03-12.xml"; XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument(nameTable); xmlDocument.Load(c); xmlDocument.Save(c); You don’t have to worry about these namespaces getting duplicated, the XmlDocument class takes care of that. Now to LINQ itself. Using the XDocument.Element method, I managed to get an …

The .NET BCL contains 3 timers: System.Timers.Timer – This is a timer in the sense of a stopwatch, meaning it tells you how long each operation took. It has methods for pausing and resuming. However, it can also work like a standard System.Windows.Forms.Timer; you just need to set the property System.Timers.Timer.AutoReset to true. When the …

With this code you can restart both a local and a remote PC. As always, we cannot do without the class ManagementClass, which handles communication with the subsystem WMI, from which we obtain the object ManagementObjectCollection, whose first element is the WMI “Wrapper“. Then all you need to do is call, via invoke on the …