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I’ve got a legacy app just starting to misbehave, for whatever reason I’m not sure. It generates a bunch of HTML that gets turned into PDF reports by ActivePDF. The process works like this: Pull an HTML template from a DB with tokens in it to be replaced (e.g. “~CompanyName~”, “~CustomerName~”, etc.) Replace the tokens … Read more
Writing a small command line tool, it would be nice to output in different colours. Is this possible? 11 Answers 11
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So I am learning MSIL right now to learn to debug my C# .NET applications. I’ve always wondered: what is the purpose of the stack? Just to put my question in context: Why is there a transfer from memory to stack or “loading?” On the other hand, why is there a transfer from stack to … Read more
When a compile fails in VB.NET in Visual Studio 2008, an Error List pops up at the bottom of the screen. To jump to an error, I double click on an error in the error list. Is there a shortcut to automatically jump to the next error in the list? It gets a little bit … Read more
How to calculate the difference in months between two dates in C#? Is there is equivalent of VB’s DateDiff() method in C#. I need to find difference in months between two dates that are years apart. The documentation says that I can use TimeSpan like: TimeSpan ts = date1 – date2; but this gives me … Read more
I like instantiating my WCF service clients within a using block as it’s pretty much the standard way to use resources that implement IDisposable: using (var client = new SomeWCFServiceClient()) { //Do something with the client } But, as noted in this MSDN article, wrapping a WCF client in a using block could mask any … Read more
