Some of the very first programs we are introduced to in programming is the idea of random numbers. This is often introduced using the idea of the die or dice. We have all seen them and have probably even thrown a set of dice at some point in our life. A die is pretty much a representation of a random number generator with a fixed range of values. The traditional ...
The Problem: Many programmers, when creating a .NET Web API project, typically run into a situation where they want to post a simple x-www-form-urlencoded string datatype to an endpoint. They create the POST endpoint and attempt to post a string body to it only to find out that the value passed from the body is null. It can certainly be a frustrating endeavor to find a solution to this. After ...
Back in an article I wrote in 2010 titled "Passing Data Between Forms in C# or VB.NET", I described one of a couple methods for passing data between two forms in a .NET forms project. One method was to publicly expose a method on a child form that the parent form could then call on when needed. At the same time I also mentioned, and advised against, using a public ...
Recently, at the company I work for, I had to merge two very different web sites together. While both use C#, that is where they pretty much stopped in similarity. We were exploring ways to have them talk to one another very plainly and transmit only minimal amounts of data. One website was a store which was built around the idea of digital products and it had to talk ...
Today's book review is on C# 5.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari and Ben Albahari and published by O'Reilly. This book makes up like my 5th or so O'Reilly book and I find the book publisher really publishes smashing hits or hot messes. I never found ones that were in the middle. But not to worry, this book is one of the good guys! At roughly ...
