Tag Archives: classes

Compress and decompress directories in C#

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Rod Stephens

The ZipFile class provides remarkably simple methods to compress and decompress directories in the zip format. This class is defined in the .NET Framework version 4.5, so this example is in Visual Studio 2017 instead of an older version. To … Continue reading →

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Make a class define and raise events in C#

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example uses a BankAccount class to manage a bank account (and to show how to define and raise events). If the program tries to remove more money from the account than its current balance, the BankAccount object raises an … Continue reading →

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Convert an array of bytes into an integer and back in C#

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Rod Stephens

The BitConverter class provides static methods that let you convert various data types to and from arrays of bytes. (I suppose it might have made more sense to call it the ByteConverter class.) You can use those methods to convert … Continue reading →

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Find class ancestors in C#

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Rod Stephens

The example Find classes that implement an interface or that are descendants of a given class in C# shows how to find a list of classes that are descendants of a class or interface. This example uses similar code to … Continue reading →

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Find classes that implement an interface or that are descendants of a given class in C#

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example lets you find classes that are part of an inheritance or implementation hierarchy. When you enter a class or interface name and click Find, the example uses the following code to search the currently loaded assemblies for classes … Continue reading →

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List a program’s loaded assemblies in C#

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Rod Stephens

The key to this example is the following ListAssemblies method. // List the assemblies. private void ListAssemblies() { lblNumAssemblies.Text = “”; lstAssemblies.Items.Clear(); Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor; Refresh(); foreach (Assembly assembly in AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies()) { lstAssemblies.Items.Add(assembly.GetName().Name); } // Display the number of assemblies. … Continue reading →

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Book Errata Page: The C# Helper Top 100

Posted on September 4, 2017 by RodStephens

This is the errata page for my book The C# Helper Top 100, The 100 most popular posts at csharphelper.com. If you find mistakes, please post them here in the Leave a Reply box at the bottom of the page. … Continue reading →