Category Archives: C#

To determine what the previous method called was prior to your current location in the code, try the following: string previousMethod = new System.Diagnostics.StackFrame(1, false).GetMethod().Name; This is a great quick way to determine the previous method for logging purposes in … Continue reading →

Sometimes you need an object instance rather than a static class but you really want that object instance to be globally unique to your application, e.g. there can be only one.  Enter the singleton pattern: public class MySingleton { private … Continue reading →

Curious as to how much memory your object or list of objects is taking up?  Here’s a quick way to get an approximation: long startMem = GC.GetTotalMemory(true); SortedDictionary<string, MyClass> myDictionary = GenerateDictionary(); long endMem = GC.GetTotalMemory(true); long byteSize = endMem … Continue reading →

Here’s a quick way to get a clone of your serializable object in C#: public static object GetClone(object cloneThis) { BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter(); MemoryStream ms= new MemoryStream(); bf.Serialize(ms, cloneThis); ms.Flush(); ms.Position = 0; return bf.Deserialize(ms); }

To help make applications a bit more portable, it is nice to know you can override the appSettings group in your app.config or web.config file in the following manner:         The, in the same directory, create a file userAppSettings.config, … Continue reading →

The call to FindAll: myDerivedClass.FindAll(MyBaseClass.AnyWordInNameStartsWith(partialName)); Within MyBaseClass.cs: public static Predicate AnyWordInNameStartsWith(string partialName) where T:MyBaseClass, new() { return delegate(T myClass) { partialName = partialName.ToLowerInvariant(); if (myClass.Name.ToLowerInvariant().StartsWith(partialName)) { return true; } List words = new List(); string[] splWords = myClass.Name.ToLowerInvariant().Split(’ ‘); for … Continue reading →