.NET

Collections are part of pretty much any application and they are convenient to store any type of data. Introducing LINQ in .NET things got a lot easier as your code does not need to be full with loops for performing simple operations on collections of any type...read more

Console applications are the simplest one and very convenient when you need to quickly test some functionality. Some time the functionality that you test with console application may take time and since it is test usually it happens that it crashes...read more

JSON is slowly but certainly taking over the throne of XML. It is much lighter, a lot easier to deserialize, but still there are some features that XML is better in...read more

Using web services in C# and in general in .NET based applications is really easy. All you need is a service URL and Visual Studio will generate both proxy classes for service communication and configuration for web service endpoints and bindings...read more

Last year I wrote an article about ASP.NET web application security check list. Apparently there are always more things to add to improve your web application security...read more

Dealing with shared collection in application is always a bit tricky. You have to take care of concurrent access if you are accessing from multiple threads. One more thing which does not look so important as it is not difficult to implement is managing keys for addressing values...read more

In .NET working with configuration is really easy and there are bunch of .NET classes that rely on config values so you do not have to specify values in their constructors. For me it a common practice to instantiate database connections of WCF client by only creating an instance with parameterless constructor while keeping values in config file...read more

This article is base don the article I wrote in September last year. Basically I wrote this piece of code because I needed something really lite for one way binding...read more

Most of developers, at least all the ones I know mostly use Console to test their code as it is the quickest way to do it. Despite unit tests, console is a fastest way to test your code where you can easily output the results. However if you have a lot of text in output you can get lost in results...read more

Reading from application config is pretty easy in .NET. You literally need one line to fetch the value...read more

Searching files on the file system is pretty easy using System.IO namespace classes. The problem is if you need to youery file system with some things which are related to a file, but not related to file system itself...read more

By default object instances in .NET are never "trully" clonned. Instead .NET is doing shallow copy of instances which means if you have one variable which is object instance and you assign that variable to other variable, both of them will point the same instance of that object...read more

HTML is a markup language same as XML, but still there are differences which make dealing with them a bit different. Basically HTML is a strict structure in terms of node sets and attribute sets, but in general more documents online are not exactly following the proper structure since browsers usually manage to deal with rendering out the document in UI...read more

Of course, the best way to make you web application work fluent is to write the code properly and design the architecture of application to meet requirements and certain load depending of the type of application. But even though architecture is good, you can always improve performance by reducing processing in application code itself...read more

Recently I was checking my Google Analytics for this website I spotted some referrer urls that were completely unknown to me. When I tried to visit the url of the referrers I got a lot of commercial and pop-ups after few redirects. It looked really suspicious, so I tried to find a little bit more about these. ...read more