I came across a discussion where the OP wanted to use only the first letter of a word in a string. The first letter of each word was capitalized, so his requirement was to abbreviate the sentence by removing all lower case letters in a string.
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I came across a discussion where the OP wanted to use only the first letter of a word in a string. The first letter of each word was capitalized, so his requirement was to abbreviate the sentence by removing all lower case letters in a string.
For exam… Continue reading →

A colleague of mine asked me a question – ‘How can we use an Anonymous method with a Delegate and when should we do it”.By using anonymous methods, you reduce the coding overhead in instantiating delegates, by eliminating the need to create a separ… Continue reading →

Here’s some code to programmatically find out if your laptop is currently running on battery power. I have created a Windows Form application and added the following code on a button click event which uses the SystemInformation.PowerStatus propertyC#… Continue reading →

As a programmer, one of the most common tasks in your application is to connect to the database. Here’s a very simple way to check your database connection before you start any task or use this as a service to check the connection and pause tasks if … Continue reading →

When it comes to extracting information from an assembly, Red Gate’s Reflector or the .NET Framework ILDASM tool are two obvious choices.However if you have to programmatically determine the CLR version of an assembly it was compiled against, then us… Continue reading →

The TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeBySystemTimeZoneId in .NET 3.5 and 4.0, converts a time to the time in another time zone, based on a time zone identifier. Here’s how to use this method using different time zone identifiers like “India Standard Time”,… Continue reading →

Here’s how to programmatically determine the Windows OS you are using. I will make use of the ManagementObjectSearcher class hereC#using System;using System.Management;namespace ConsoleApplication1{class Program{ public static void Main() { … Continue reading →

There are many ways to detect if a String contains Special Characters. In this code snippet, I will show a quick way to detect special characters using Regex.C#static void Main(string[] args){ string str = “Th!s $tri^g c@n$ist $pecial ch@rs”; Mat… Continue reading →