For various reasons involving out testing framework, I found myself needing to get the full command-line of the current executing assembly. However, our development environment uses the DOS SUBST … more

For various debugging processes, I find myself needing to find several bits of runtime information for my properties. This means I want to get the property's PropertyInfo object by Reflection when … more

Dictionaries have been an annoyance when serializing for a while now. IDictionary in v1.1 and now IDictionary<K,V> in v2.0 are both non-serializable, forcing us to find workarounds or use … more

I was sitting around munching some code, and needed to filter a list I had: List<Whatever> list = // get list outputList = list.FindAll(delegate(Whatever item){   if (// blah … more

Just a quick tip to prevent others from feeling as foolish as I do: The static CreateDirectory() method of the System.IO.Directory class will create the entire directory tree passed to it. There's no … more

A relatively obscure new keyword in C# 2.0 is the default(T) keyword. It's shorthand for checking if the given generic parameter T is a value type or reference type. If it's a reference type, it … more

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have a need to consistently pass an operation context to any thread I choose to spin. Doing so manually, as I did here, involves a lot of ugly, repetitive code … more

WCF Services tend to be big, heavy duty things. When I write a service I often want it to do a lot of work for a lot of clients, and it should do it efficiently. This usually means that I will use … more