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Creating a byte array from a stream
What is the prefered method for creating a byte array from an input stream?
Here is my current solution with .NET 3.5.
Stream s;
byte[] b;
using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(s))
{
b = ...
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What is the difference between IQueryable<T> and IEnumerable<T>?
What is the difference between IQueryable<T> and IEnumerable<T>?
See also What's the difference between IQueryable and IEnumerable that overlaps with this question.
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LINQ query on a DataTable
I'm trying to perform a LINQ query on a DataTable object and bizarrely I am finding that performing such queries on DataTables is not straightforward. For example:
var results = from myRow in ...
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Which method performs better: .Any() vs .Count() > 0?
In the System.Linq namespace, we can now extend our IEnumerable's to have the Any() and Count() extension methods.
I was told recently that if I want to check that a collection contains one or more ...
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Will the IE9 WebBrowser Control Support all of IE9's features, including SVG?
I recently upgraded to IE9-beta. Now, In my .Net (3.5) WinForm application I want to use WebBrowser control.
So my question is, whether the WebBrowser control will exhibit all properties and ...
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WCF - How to Increase Message Size Quota
I have a WCF Service which returns 1000 records from database to the client. I have an ASP.NET WCF client (I have added service reference in asp.net web application project to consume WCF).
I get ...
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Creating a DateTime in a specific Time Zone in c#
I'm trying to create a unit test to test the case for when the timezone changes on a machine because it has been incorrectly set and then corrected.
In the test I need to be able to create DateTime ...
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How can I convert an integer into its verbal representation?
Is there a library or a class/function that I can use to convert an integer to its verbal representation?
Example input:
4,567,788`
Example output:
Four million, Five hundred sixty-seven thousand, ...
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Why Response.Redirect causes System.Threading.ThreadAbortException?
When I use Response.Redirect(...) to redirect my form to a new page I get the error:
A first chance exception of type 'System.Threading.ThreadAbortException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
An ...
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'Contains()' workaround using Linq to Entities?
I'm trying to create a query which uses a list of ids in the where clause, using the Silverlight ADO.Net Data Services client api (and therefore Linq To Entities). Does anyone know of a workaround to ...
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Use LINQ to get items in one List<>, that are not in another List<>
I would assume there's a simple LINQ query to do this, I'm just not exactly sure how.
Given this piece of code:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
List<Person> ...
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Conditional compilation and framework targets
There are a few minor places where code for my project may be able to be drastically improved if the target framework were a newer version. I'd like to be able to better leverage conditional ...
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Could not find default endpoint element
I've added a proxy to a webservice to a VS2008/.NET 3.5 solution. When constructing the client .NET throws this error:
Could not find default endpoint element that references contract '...
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Wait until file is unlocked in .NET
What's the simplest way of blocking a thread until a file has been unlocked and is accessible for reading and renaming? For example, is there a WaitOnFile() somewhere in the .NET Framework?
I have a ...
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How to detect installed version of MS-Office?
Does anyone know what would be the best way to detect which version of Office is installed? Plus, if there are multiple versions of Office installed, I'd like to know what versions they are. A bonus ...
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