Coding
This is where I keep my snippets
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C# Retrieve MAC Address with WMI
We use WMI in System.Management Here is a .NET Framework 2.0 way of doing object queries in this case: ManagementObjectSearcher query = new ManagementObjectSearcher(“SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration”); ManagementObjectCollection queryCollection = query.Get(); string mac = “”; foreach (ManagementObject mo in queryCollection) { try { mac = mo[“MacAddress”].ToString(); MessageBox.Show(mac); } catch { } }
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Merging Layers in Acrobat 8
So if you find you have a whole bunch of layers and you need to repeatedly throw them all together all the time, you can do this with javascript: //Open Javascript Console console.show(); var MAINocgLayerName = “Add Boundary Sets”; var mergedOCGArray = new Array(); var sourceOCGArray = this.getOCGOrder(); var OCGArray = this.getOCGs(); var sourceLayer; var
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C# Unit Testing in a nutshell
OK so there’s a thing called test-based development techniques. Essentially it means that if you want to write a piece of code, you first write a test piece which defines an example of input variables and corresponding output varaibles. It then calls the function you want to write and retrieves the ouput from that function.
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C# Random number
To get basic semi-random numbers: Random random = new Random(); int n = random.Next(min, max);
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C# Write to File
Writing to a file is relatively easy in C#. ///<summary> ///Write an entry to our logfile</summary> ///<param name=”message”>The message you want to write to the log file</param> private voidlog(string message) { StreamWriter writer = newStreamWriter(@”c:\log.txt”, true); writer.WriteLine(formatEntry(message)); writer.Flush(); writer.Close(); } Simple.
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C# Get Logged in User
System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(“USERNAME”);
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C# background processing
Here’s a quick reminder on how to not tie up you form thread while doing time consuming operations from controls on a form. .NET makes this relatively easy: 1. Declare your delegate: private delegate void CallAsyncWorkerDirectDelegate(string func, string param); 2. Write your Worker function private void CallAsyncWorkerDirect(string func, string param) { string parm1, parm2; parm1