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Visual Studio helps manage user and application settings. Using this approach has these benefits over using the appSettings section of the configuration file. Settings can be made strongly typed. Any type which can be serialized can be used for a settings value. Application settings can be...

Starting from a new Settings class and custom configuration section: Add an application setting named ExampleTimeout, using the time System.Timespan, and set the value to 1 minute: Save the Project Properties, which saves the Settings tab entries, as well as re-generates the custom Settings cl...

var collection = new BlockingCollection<int>(5); var random = new Random(); var producerTask = Task.Run(() => { for(int item=1; item<=10; item++) { collection.Add(item); Console.WriteLine("Produced: " + item); Thread.Sleep(random.Next(1...

A task can be created by directly instantiating the Task class... var task = new Task(() => { Console.WriteLine("Task code starting..."); Thread.Sleep(2000); Console.WriteLine("...task code ending!"); }); Console.WriteLine("Starting task..."); t...

var task1 = Task.Run(() => { Console.WriteLine("Task 1 code starting..."); throw new Exception("Oh no, exception from task 1!!"); }); var task2 = Task.Run(() => { Console.WriteLine("Task 2 code starting..."); throw new Exception("Oh ...

var task1 = Task.Run(() => { Console.WriteLine("Task 1 code starting..."); throw new Exception("Oh no, exception from task 1!!"); }); var task2 = Task.Run(() => { Console.WriteLine("Task 2 code starting..."); throw new Exception("Oh ...

var cancellationTokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource(); var cancellationToken = cancellationTokenSource.Token; var task = new Task((state) => { int i = 1; var myCancellationToken = (CancellationToken)state; while(true) { Console.Write...

Structs inherit from System.ValueType, are value types, and live on the stack. When value types are passed as a parameter, they are passed by value. Struct MyStruct { public int x; public int y; } Passed by value means that the value of the parameter is copied for the method, and any...

Classes inherit from System.Object, are reference types, and live on the heap. When reference types are passed as a parameter, they are passed by reference. public Class MyClass { public int a; public int b; } Passed by reference means that a reference to the parameter is passed to t...

An enum is a special type of class. The enum keyword tells the compiler that this class inherits from the abstract System.Enum class. Enums are used for distinct lists of items. public enum MyEnum { Monday = 1, Tuesday, Wednesday, //... } You can think of an enum as a conve...

public IEnumerable<User> SelectUsers() { // Execute an SQL query on a database. using (IDataReader reader = this.Database.ExecuteReader(CommandType.Text, "SELECT Id, Name FROM Users")) { while (reader.Read()) { int id = reader.GetInt32(0...

You can extend the functionality of existing yield methods by passing in one or more values or elements that could define a terminating condition within the function by calling a yield break to stop the inner loop from executing. public static IEnumerable<int> CountUntilAny(int start, HashSet...

using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Collections.ObjectModel; using System.ComponentModel.Composition; namespace Demo { [Export(typeof(IUserProvider))] public sealed class UserProvider : IUserProvider { public ReadOnlyCollection<User> GetAllUsers() ...

using System; using System.ComponentModel.Composition; namespace Demo { public sealed class UserWriter { [Import(typeof(IUserProvider))] private IUserProvider userProvider; public void PrintAllUsers() { foreach (User user in this.user...

See the other (Basic) examples above. using System.ComponentModel.Composition; using System.ComponentModel.Composition.Hosting; namespace Demo { public static class Program { public static void Main() { using (var catalog = new ApplicationCatalog()) ...

Typically lambdas are used for defining simple functions (generally in the context of a linq expression): var incremented = myEnumerable.Select(x => x + 1); Here the return is implicit. However, it is also possible to pass actions as lambdas: myObservable.Do(x => Console.WriteLine(x)); ...

Use parentheses around the expression to the left of the => operator to indicate multiple parameters. delegate int ModifyInt(int input1, int input2); ModifyInt multiplyTwoInts = (x,y) => x * y; Similarly, an empty set of parentheses indicates that the function does not accept parameters. ...

Unlike an expression lambda, a statement lambda can contain multiple statements separated by semicolons. delegate void ModifyInt(int input); ModifyInt addOneAndTellMe = x => { int result = x + 1; Console.WriteLine(result); }; Note that the statements are enclosed in braces {}. ...

For null values: Nullable<int> i = null; Or: int? i = null; Or: var i = (int?)null; For non-null values: Nullable<int> i = 0; Or: int? i = 0;

Explicit interface implementation is necessary when you implement multiple interfaces who define a common method, but different implementations are required depending on which interface is being used to call the method (note that you don't need explicit implementations if multiple interfaces share t...