When developing Windows Applications it is quite common to end up having to access a special folder. Some examples of special folders are user Desktop, user Documents (My Documents in case of Windows XP), temporary folder, etc. When using the file system I/O functions it is important to always access the correct folder thus one … Continue reading Accessing the correct Windows special folder

When writing functions in C♯ sometimes one ends up putting parameters that might not be required all the time or when omitted would like to place a default value to these parameters. The way this is tackled is by using method overloads with different parameters. However, from the release of .NET 4.0 it is possible … Continue reading Optional Parameters

Named parameters are a handy tool to deal with parameters especially for readability as each parameter value can be marked with the parameter tag. The concept of Named parameters has been in .NET from the first version; however they were used only with Attributes as part of the ECMA-334 specifications. In .NET 4.0 the concept … Continue reading Named Parameters

One way of obtaining management data and operation related to the Windows operating system is to use the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes. WMI can be considered as a database while the classes are like tables in the database. Therefore WMI can be queried to obtain specific table/class information. To use WMI classes in .NET … Continue reading Working with WMI classes

In article String concatenation and int indirect cast it was shown how the ToString() can be used to improve the performance of a program by eliminating the need for the boxing concept. However, the ToString() can still hinder the performance especially when used multiple times to convert a data type or object into a string … Continue reading Using ToString() on the same item multiple times