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Object Property as Key in Collection

A innovation of Dictionary got excellent solution in stocking data. After countless uses I decided to find alternative method in combination of key and object and now I offering KeyedCollection. Little example will present a using of aforementioned object:

Simple classes:

public class User
   {
       public int Id { get; set; }
       public string Name { get; set; }
       public Address Address { get; set; }
   }

   public class Address
   {
       public string Country { get; set; }
       public string City { get; set; }
       public string Zip { get; set; }
   }

Two object that inherits abstract KeyedCollections:

/// <summary>
///A key is ID of player
/// </summary>
public class UserCollection : KeyedCollection<int, User>
{
    //Implementing member
    protected override int GetKeyForItem(User item)
    {
        return item.Id;
    }
}

/// <summary>
/// A key is User Name
/// </summary>
public class UserCollection1 : KeyedCollection<string, User>
{
    //Implementing member
    protected override string GetKeyForItem(User item)
    {
        return item.Name;
    }
}

 

Little example to using:

public class Test
{
    public TestById()
    {
        var userCollection = new UserCollection();
        userCollection.Add(new User
                               {
                                   Id = 5,
                                   Name = "John Smith",
                                   Address = new Address
                                                 {
                                                     City = "NY",
                                                     Country = "USA",
                                                     Zip = "12345"
                                                 }
                               });

        userCollection.Add(new User
                               {
                                   Id = 17,
                                   Name = "James Brown",
                                   Address = new Address
                                                 {
                                                     City = "LA",
                                                     Country = "USA",
                                                     Zip = "54321"
                                                 }
                               });

        Console.Write(userCollection[6]);
    }
     public void  TestByName()
    {
        var userCollection = new UserCollection1();
        userCollection.Add(new User
                               {
                                   Id = 5,
                                   Name = "John Smith",
                                   Address = new Address
                                                 {
                                                     City = "NY",
                                                     Country = "USA",
                                                     Zip = "12345"
                                                 }
                               });

        userCollection.Add(new User
                               {
                                   Id = 17,
                                   Name = "James Brown",
                                   Address = new Address
                                                 {
                                                     City = "LA",
                                                     Country = "USA",
                                                     Zip = "54321"
                                                 }
                               });

        Console.Write(userCollection["John Smith"]);
    }
}

 

 

If a project in VS 2008 you can run in heritable object LINQ requests and more. Enjoy!

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Debug windows service

In the time, when you work on development a windows service not possible to debug it. A solution is a converting service to console application or creating additional service runner or anymore. I want to present very simple, effective and easy way how to resolve this. In debug mode will run application and in not debug mode will run service.

[RunInstaller(true)]
public partial class ServiceRunner : ServiceBase
{
    [STAThread]
    static void Main()
    {
#if !DEBUG
        //Run Windows Service
        Run(new ServiceRunner());
#else
        //Run Application
        new YourServiceBody();
#endif
    }
    public ServiceRunner()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

    }
    protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
    {
        new YourServiceBody();
    }

    protected override void OnStop()
    {}
}

Good luck!

Clone an object in C# using reflection for system and generic types

public object Clone()
{
    object newObject = Activator.CreateInstance(GetType());
    PropertyInfo[] propertyInfos = GetType().GetProperties();
    foreach (PropertyInfo propertyInfo in propertyInfos)
    {
        if (propertyInfo.PropertyType.IsGenericType)
        {
            if (propertyInfo.PropertyType.GetInterface("IList", true) != null)
            {
                IList oldList = propertyInfo.GetValue(this, null) as IList;
                if (oldList != null && oldList.Count > 0 &&
            oldList[0].GetType().GetInterface("ICloneable", true) != null)
                {
                    IList newList = (IList)propertyInfo.GetValue(newObject, null);
                    foreach (object obj in oldList)
                    {
                        ICloneable clone = (ICloneable)obj;
                        newList.Add(clone.Clone());
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    propertyInfo.SetValue(newObject, oldList, null);
                }
            }
            if (propertyInfo.PropertyType.GetInterface("IDictionary", true) != null)
            {
                IDictionary oldDic =
                  propertyInfo.GetValue(this, null) as IDictionary;
                if (oldDic != null && oldDic.Count > 0 &&
               oldDic[0].GetType().GetInterface("ICloneable", true) != null)
                {
                    IDictionary newDic =
                     (IDictionary)propertyInfo.GetValue(newObject, null);
                    foreach (DictionaryEntry entry in oldDic)
                    {
                        ICloneable clone = (ICloneable)entry.Value;
                        newDic[entry.Key] = clone.Clone();
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    propertyInfo.SetValue(newObject, oldDic, null);
                }
            }
        }
        else
        {
            //Clone IClonable object
            if (propertyInfo.GetType().GetInterface("ICloneable", true) != null)
            {
                ICloneable clone = (ICloneable)propertyInfo.GetValue(this, null);
                propertyInfo.SetValue(newObject, clone.Clone(), null);
            }
            else
            {
                propertyInfo.SetValue(
                 newObject, propertyInfo.GetValue(this, null), null);
            }
        }
    }
    return newObject;
}

Snippet Designer for Visual Studio 2008

The Snippet Designer is a plugin which enhances the Visual Studio IDE to allow a richer and more productive code snippet experience.

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VS 2005 Intellisense in web.config files stop work

Now one annoying gotcha:

There is one gotcha to be aware of, though, that can sometimes cause intellisense for the web.config file to stop working in the IDE. This happens when a default namespace is added to the root <configuration> element. For example, like so:

<configuration xmlns=
"http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0">

This doesn’t cause any runtime problems – but it does stop intellisense completion happening for the built-in .NET XML elements in the web.config file.

The bad news is that the built-in web admin tool (launched via the WebSite->ASP.NET Configuration menu item in VS 2005 and Visual Web Developer) always adds this xmlns namespace when it launches – so if you use this tool to manage users/roles you’ll end up having it added to your web.config file for you.

How to fix this gotcha:

To get intellisense back when you are editing the web.config file in the IDE, just delete the xmlns reference and have the root configuration element look like so:

<configuration>

Everything will then work fine again.

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Download source

The zip file contains:
EnumDefaultValueAttribute.cs
EnumTransmogrifier.cs
LibEnum.cs
build.bat
csc.rsp
EnumDemo1.cs
EnumDemo2.cs
EnumDump.cs
MonthEnum.cs
PolyglotAttribute.cs
WeekdayEnum.cs

Once you extract the files to a directory you should be able to execute build.bat to compile the demo programs. (They are console applications.)

To use the methods in your own projects, simply add the appropriate files.

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• Simplifying Conditional Expressions
• Making Method Calls Simpler
• Dealing with Generalization
• Big Refactorings

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