Category Archives: C#

Calling Scala from C#

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Ben

Yesterday, I figured out how to call some C# code from Scala. It is a small leap to then call Scala from C#. The process just gets turned around: instead of creating a C# class library and referencing it from … Continue reading →

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Bindable DataGrid Columns

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Ben

Currently the WPF DataGrid supports two ways in which to generate columns: AutoGenerate and XAML declaration. AutoGenerating columns will produce a column for every property in the ItemsSource class, but the behavior can be altered by using the AutoGeneratingColumn event … Continue reading →

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Parallel LINQ (PLINQ)

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Ben

LINQ is getting an upgrade with .Net 4.0. Features are being added that allow us to easily execute queries in parallel. It gives us another reason to drop those odious for and foreach statements and use LINQ. .Net 4.0 introduces … Continue reading →

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WPF Lessons Learned – Use ContextMenu.Items over ContextMenu.ItemsSource

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Ben

I’ve been working on a WPF project for a client and have learned a lot in the process. I’d like to touch on some of these things. This first post will be about creating a ContextMenu. I’ve had to create … Continue reading →

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P2P with WCF

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Ben

A couple posts ago I was doing some experimentation with TCPClient and TCPServer. The bulk of my testing was done by creating a simple chat application. After that I decided I wanted to figure out how to do the same … Continue reading →

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A Small TCP Experiment

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Ben

I’m going to be writing some networking code for a personal project, so I spent some time learning to use TcpClient/TcpListener. After starting to learn them, I thought it might be interesting if I could send a delegate across the … Continue reading →

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Writing to a CD

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Ben

In one of my projects I needed to be able to write data to a CD. I found a great article at code guru that helped me out:http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_general/tipstricks/article.php/c15201 However, I did find one bug in his code. On page three … Continue reading →

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When to use Linq: for/foreach

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Ben

Many people around the office love Linq, but I haven’t used it much and hadn’t heard about it until I started here. I have written a few Linq queries (Linq to Objects) but don’t use them extensively in my coding. … Continue reading →

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