ServiceControl can be used to get information about a Windows Service on a machine. In this post I will show you how to retrieve information about a service using ServiceControl.
To begin with lets examine the properties for ServiceControl. Through the designer we can set the ServiceName property. This can be set to the name [...]
Introduction
At times us developers have to deal with delimited text files in our applications. Such files have been around since yonks and I often come across data import/export tasks where delimited files are used. Till now the common way in .NET has been to read each line and then extract data using some sort [...]
Event Log is a central place to log application events. These events can be errors, warnings or just information. Each event log entry in Windows Vista has a level of event, date and time the event occurred, source of event, an event Id and a task category. While event logs such as Application, System, Security [...]
StyleCop is a source analysis tool for C#. It can be used for analysing source code as opposed to compiled assemblies which is the area for FxCop. StyleCop is currently in version 4.2 and can be downloaded here. In this tutorial I will show you how to use StyleCop.
I will [...]
In this post I will show you how to perform dynamic sorting with LINQ. I will work with a simple collection of City class. City class is defined below.
public class City
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Country { get; set; }
}
The [...]
C# as a language has matured over years. We have come a long way from the first version of C# to the current which incorporates LINQ. Here is an example I recently used in a training session. My objective was to show students how we can retrieve items from a collection based on a certain [...]






