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Questions tagged [c#]

C# is a multiparadigm, managed, garbage-collected object-oriented programming language created by Microsoft in parallel with the .NET platform

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Cloud to device messaging

In the past days I was focussing on the IoT environment and now I was moving into the practice. I found a lot of services that helps with the implementation of it like Azure IoT Hub. Now before ...
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Is it okay for async function to update a common object

I have a couple of functions, each function verifies a set of rules and updates a common object. The common object is just a container that holds a list of rules that passed or failed. I would like to ...
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Choice between PUT and a separate request for each change for CRUD-based UI

I'm making an HTTP API for ASP.NET Core Identity. Basically what I want is a remote version of this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.aspnetcore.identity.usermanager-1?view=...
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Design for Handling Spatial Data using EF Core and MySql

So EF Core support for spatial data is practically nonexistent at the moment. The majority of work that has been done is about to drop in the 2.2 Preview 3 which is fantastic news. However, it's ...
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Calculating the total price of items in a shopping cart

I am making a shopping cart. A shopping cart will have a total amount of money you've got to pay for the products you've selected. I'd like to approach the problem using both OOP (encapsulating it) ...
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Function that returns non parameter functions

I found a function in c# like this: private Dictionary<string, Func<string>> ObtenerExtraCfgCampo(MsgDefCamp camp) { var extra = new Dictionary<string, Func<string>&...
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Is it safe to put SQL statements in my C# application?

I'm making a medium sized application to be distributed privately to several Churches. It connects to an Azure database but it does not have any server managing the information (apart from the SQL ...
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Custom messages to UI from DAL?

I have an Asp.net MVC application and sometimes I want to give a descriptive error message to the user, but the condition of it is discovered at the Data Access Layer (DAL). So for example, I have a ...
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How should I Implement a general method that could be used across several view models?

Currently I have implemented a method in to a model to take a screen shot like so E.G. Interface public interface ICapture { void CaptureMethod(); } This is the model that implements that ...
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Json Deserialization Override Property

Calling out the tech: C#, Newtonsoft.Json. We have a class which contains a property named SchemaVersion that we use to inform of the Json document version once that object is ultimately serialized ...
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What tactics to use to load the referenced data in repository implementation?

Say that I have a repositories that are used as READ-ONLY data provides (never for the writes/updates) - the query part of the CQS, NO event sourcing, hitting relational DB. One of the essential ...
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Writing a blog post website with markdown

so I'm working on a website project with the goal of writing my own blog posts with markdown syntax. I made some thoughts regarding the handling of the markdown and the conversion to HTML, storage ...
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Where is it better to implement Copy/Cut/Paste in MVVM?

I am working on a project using C#/WPF and following MVVM pattern. This project is designed for touch screens. The major objects of the program are the following: We have Programs which contain ...
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Alternatives to Long Loops [closed]

I am part of a software team that is writing a console application (no UI) in C#. My part in the team is to write code to call RESTful APIs from a third party site, process the returned data and save ...
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Single database call and iterate in memory vs multiple database calls and multiple smaller iterations

I'm designing a new application that is very basic however I expect it to grow and don't want to have to refactor down the line. My challenge is that in one method, I either need to retrieve thousands ...
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How to return fluently?

I'm becoming addicted to writing fluently (perhaps incorrectly originally said "declaratively") and I'm taking it to possibly unwise extremes, but the more I write this way the more one thing stands ...
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Using new [className] without a return

I have started using the following in my automation code in instances where I'm not interested in keeping the object 'alive'and just using it as a means as a type of precondition. For example: ...
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Is there a design for C# that removes the need for dynamic?

I have a web service that implements Repository Pattern and I was wondering if there is a design in C# that can remove the need for 'dynamic' when injecting it in my method. public interface ...
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Handling application-wide notifications from various layers of the application?

I have recently started updating portions of our corporate platform, and I've been trying to find ways to make the entire platform more efficient, better structured, and just cleaner in general. With ...
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Single responsibility of Program class in C#

I do not follow SOLID strictly in general, but I do try making sure to separate responsibilities of my classes. I was developing a small app with a Windows service powered by Topshelf and realized ...
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How to design thread safe class when separating business logic from POCOs

I like to separate business logic out of POCOs into controllers. If an object must be thread safe, where do I put the lock code? In the POCO itself? Or in a controller? Might make sense because ...
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Is there a name for a server/client relationship where the client doesn't request, but will reply to the server's requests?

Disclaimer: I'm sure this has been asked here before, but I haven't been able to find it. I'm trying to create a system where one central computer (master) can initiate commands on other computers (...
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What HTTP action and return value should be used on resource's action

I have a question about how I should implement a new action for a resource on my API layer. I have a Timesheet which is used by people to let us know how many hours they worked on a job. This ...
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Making type conversions better readable

If you create a function, which should make the use of typeconversions more easy, but it maybe leads to more errors, would implement it globally, and what may speaks against it - when the readability ...
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Delta Updating, what it is, how to implement it, where is it found? [closed]

I am not sure where this is going to go, and I am not sure if this is even the right Stack group to be posting in for this matter. But simply I want to create from scratch using my knowledge of C# a ...
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How to create secure desktop installer that doesn't trigger a virus alert for unknown exe?

When I created a c# desktop application and move the exe file to another computer that has anti virus security, the security program shows an alert as unknown exe. I want to create a desktop ...
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Giving Viewmodels access to application wide Model in MVVM

I am practicing building applications using MVVM and WPF+C# by making a "finance application". The application contains several views with their own ViewModels. The views are in a hierarchy and are ...
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Multithreading ( thread per area ) for an MMO server, good idea?

As a personal project, I'm setting up a MMO, and writing the server in C#/.NET Core. As of now my architecture is as follows: The world exists of different areas ( you can go from area to area trough ...
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Creating a mobile app based on the ASP.NET Core website

Coming from Desktop development, I'm in the middle of my very first web project (as a small side/learning-project). I'm using ASP.NET Core 2. I'm already thinking about going mobile too. What are my ...
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Where should domain events be added: in entities or aggregate roots?

I'm designing the base classes and I don't know if I should add the field 'domainEvents' to the Entity class or only to the AggregateRoot class. I must add the code for add and remove events in ...
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DDD - How to do informative validation (specifically on entity creation)?

For my domain entities currently, all validation errors cause exceptions to be thrown. I don't like this as it doesn't allow me to compile all validation errors before exiting a method. I'd like to ...
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Storing self-expiring items in redis and getting all of them

I need to place some data into redis so that each element has a sliding expiration (say 60 seconds each). I also need to be able to get a list of all elements that are currently in Redis. Initially ...
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Wrapping WCF client with Stream for disposing

I need to consume data from a WCF service, which pipes it through a stream. The data itself is contents of an archive file, so it needs additional logic, which I am splitting off into a separate class....
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What is a CRUD system?

I am learning Event Sourcing in my spare time. I see lots of references to 'CRUD type systems' online. I understand a CRUD type system to be: 1) A database driven system (website or application) i....
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What are the benefits of local instance variables?

I have a tendency to invoke methods directly on a new class instance like this: new Person().GetAge() when I don't need the instance of the class (here Person) after the invocation. However, I have ...
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Should I use the same class for the configuration and the runtime object representing the same entity?

I am building an reporting application. The database already exists, is populated by an other system, and contains an 'cuurent balance' table, with columns CustomerId and CurrentBalance In the ...
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Performing serial communication in constructor to initialize an object

I have a class UnitInfo which represents a collection of unit information with methods to get the unit information in a structured way, such as a specific encoding, etc. This unit info consists of ...
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Should I avoid nested generic collections?

I recently came across a dictionary with lists for values passed as an argument: Demo(Dictionary<string, List<string>> arg) It got me thinking---normally I would abstract any list or ...
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How to interpret Dependency Inversion Principle

I am working on trying to understand the SOLID object oriented design principles. I was able to get the "SOL" pretty easily, though "L" required some hand holding because I am bad at definitions. I ...
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Do we really need SerializableAttribute?

I understand we need it to mark a class whose objects can be serialized, but do we strictly need this for behind the hood logic to work? We could just serialize the object using necessary methods. On ...
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Time-based Task scheduler engine

I am working on an enterprise level application. I have an event table in the database. I need to update my events' states in the database on a precise date and time. There may be 200 milliseconds ...
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Should it be a claim, a role or a policy?

The distinction between roles and claims is that roles describe a set of users and claims describe a property of a user. So there can be a role "Administrator", but there can also be a claim "...
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Separating Domain Object and Data Models

I looked through a lot of articles, blogs, and SO topics about separating domain object and data models. Almost every answer said: You should have separate classes for the domain and data persistence, ...
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Unit Test a CRUD Controller MVC

I have looked through answers related to this but they don't seem to solve my problem. I am fairly new unit testing and testing as a whole. I just finished a small web application using ASP.NET Core ...
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How to have multiple source copies of a dependency in a C# git project?

In our company, we develop information system software in C#.NET, which has client-server-module architecture. Module project does not depend directly on server/client project, but only on shared ...
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Xamarin.Forms: How to manage the images?

I want to use a lot of images in my Xamarin.forms App and I want to remain flexible to possible changes. The images could change, but not their names. I want to locate the images in a separate ...
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Catch statements with other Business Logic in Parsing Files

I am writing a simple program to parse a text file and place into Generic List. Sample Text: 1,Joe,CA,58,2 2,Matt,TX,63,5 Sometimes, there may be an error, with missing data in the file 1,Joe,CA,...
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How should I separate File Parse Classes?

I want to understand different ways to object design classes. I have three different classes. Generally I am creating a file parser. The classes: CustomerData - which shows text Data Model. A File ...
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What's the best way to design batch job type processing

I'm working on a portion of an ERP system where I need to process data in a way that's similar to a series of batch jobs, and I'm struggling with deciding the best program architecture to use. I'm ...
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Trying to think through a helper (or middleware) application

All: Here's what I'd like to do. (using c# / Universal Windows) Our business has a number of devices (industrial manufacturing - meters, test equipment...) used by our staff. I've written a series ...

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