It doesn’t take much to hack together email functionality using the .NET framework. In most cases you can new-up a MailMessage reference, assign sender and recipient addresses, provide a subject and a message body, configure your SMTP settings and then send. Done and done. But let’s say you need to provide both plain text and [...]
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The Cache Helper Class has been updated so that it is no longer limited by the generic constraint. The original post has been updated along with a sample project for download. Let me know what think. I know I’m much happy with this solution. As always, thanks for your comments and thanks for letting me [...]
Do you need a quick and cache wrapper class? Here’s a static class which I included in my more recent C# web application. You’ll notice the class uses generics to allow for some, umm, generic functionality. public static class CacheHelper { /// <summary> /// Insert value into the cache using /// appropriate name/value pairs /// [...]
I have collected a reasonably good size library of C# helper files over the years. The EncryptionHelper below is one of many which I plan to share. using System; using System.Security.Cryptography; using System.Text; namespace Common { public static class EncryptionHelper { private const string cryptoKey = “cryptoKey”; // The Initialization Vector for the DES encryption [...]
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After hours of discussions and documentation, we had a good understanding of the functional requirements. The ask was for a very complex, intelligent and “AJAXy” web application which would give financial advisors the ability to rebalance their clients’ portfolios based on a specified investment objective. Everyone was excited (especially me) until the final requirement was [...]
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This question circulates through the office about once a year. “Um, I have Windows service which processes requests which are queued in a database table. Everything is working great, but I would like to add a second instance of the service and I need to know the best way to ensure the services don’t step [...]
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Out of the box, you can do a lot with the DataView.RowFilter property, but you can’t make use of the top clause. However, if the view contains a column with unique values, you can obtain the same results by setting the Sort property and then generating a RowFilter which uses the in condition. Here’s a [...]
Disclaimer: If I were a betting man, I would bet there’s some code which does the following kicking around a forum, blog or two already. Simply, I wasn’t lucky enough to find it. Hence, the IF in “if I were a betting man.” I ran into a case today where I wanted to reduce unused [...]