Articles tagged with ".NET"

Start out with the basics for command line argument processing and exception handling for your console based utilities

Easily add progress reporting to your console apps

A handy code snippet that can set indentation levels while rendering multipart documents with a TextWriter

BinaryReader needs a better way to read strings and types. Here's a quick and dirty fix

A circular buffer implementing IList

A fully generic ordered dictionary class in C#

Slice sections out of a MIDI file, and stretch or compress playback time using this simple utility. Or use the Midi Library to build your own MIDI apps

Creating an application that can run once, but then accept command line args from subsequent runs

Use TaskCompletionSource to turn an event or callback based model into a Task based one

Add progress reporting to your downloading or copying using this code

A B-tree, an AVL tree, and a Splay tree in C#

BinaryReader and BinaryWriter can be used to parse or write binary files more easily and in a portable manner

Easily reuse source from entire projects at the source level instead of the binary level

A small library for providing baseline Context-Free Grammar computations

If you use the CodeDOM, here's an indispensable package to make it awesome.

A helper class that dramatically reduces the amount of code you need to write for the CodeDOM

This tip shows how to create a dynamic JavaScript-like object to be used in web pages and T4 templates.

Easily create single source file drop-ins from multiple C# source files

Leveraging some less well known areas of the .NET Task framework to schedule tasks to execute on your own conditions.

Code generation, faster

Easier Hand Rolled Parsers

This tip demonstrates how to create an app that only allows one instance to run at a time

A relatively safe, simple, yet high performance technique for using lists as dictionary keys.

A crash course in GLR parsing which can be used to parse highly ambiguous grammars

Glory can parse virtually anything, even natural language. Add powerful parsers to your projects. Parse languages like C# or incorporate human language parsing with your AI code.

Extensive performance and API improvements for streaming MIDI and more

Learn how to implement recursive descent parsers, with examples for JSON and an integer expression evaluator

This tip shows you a robust way to get the type of items a collection can hold. It works with non-generic collections too.

Creating a simple parser in 3 easy lessons

Creating a simple parser in 3 easy lessons

Add UTF-32 support and easy foreach streaming to your apps

How to provide custom formatters for string.Format() in C#

Fills a gap in Microsoft's Queue offering with an alternative allowing efficient indexed access

Dependency free, fast, lightweight JSON parsing and light query

A parser generator and tool for exploring LL parsing algorithms

Manage location tracking, lifetime, error reporting and basic parsing/lexing with this simple class

A completely programmable lexer/tokenizer/scanner generator in C# using a Pike Virtual Machine

Easily implement efficient backtracking capabilities over any enumeration

An LL(1) pull parser and generator that thinks it's an LL(k) parser - with a rich, simple and beautiful EBNF syntax

Using Parsley to parse a C# subset into the CodeDOM

Using Parsley to prototype and test hand written parsers

Use the Parsley compositional parser generator to parse a complicated grammar with backtracking.

Quickly build simple parsers with this drop-in source

Generate powerful, maintainable parsers in most major .NET languages using a friendly grammar format

Using PCK to create grammars, parsers and tokenizers for C# and other .NET languages

A parser generator and unification system for different parsing tools

Using PCK's grammar system, and understanding the concepts behind it

Quickly and easily build parsers and tokenizers using Pck's editor

An LALR(1) parsing algorithm as part of Pck

Implementing full list support over custom data structures in .NET

Implementing a visitor pattern over the CodeDOM

A simple helper class to aid in code generation

Easily compare collections for equality

Easily word wrap strings of text in C#

An initial look at a tool to dramatically simplify language agnostic code generation using the CodeDOM

Parse, analyze, and transform your code with Slang

This is a very specialized tool that generates source code to upload files into SPIFFS on an ESP32

Code for parsing, querying, and emitting JSON or a JSON superset

Adapt a TextBox to make it writeable like any other text based I/O

A simple home HTTP server that works across all .NET platforms

Using IEqualityComparer to allow collections to be keys in dictionaries and hashsets

This tip shows you how to do UI updates without having to worry about locking.

How to process large JSON data using a streaming reader

A Non-Backtracking Regular Expression Engine for .NET (Core)

How to implement a complicated multithreaded message passing scenario

Easily add scripting support to your apps using Microsoft's active script technology

Easily create zip packages from source code, suitable for upload on CodeProject

This is a little templating engine build tool I use to make my code generation projects more maintainable.

Add non-backtracking fast DFA regular expression and finite state automata to your projects

Explore, run, and manipulate DFA regular expressions from graphs, to state machines with this library

Hoodwink your computer into doing your work for you using regular expressions

Build a feature rich, non-backtracking regular expression engine and code generator in C#

Build a full featured tokenizer generator in C#

Explore adapting Socket's async model to a task based one and adding some awaitable socket operations to your projects

Creating a simple parser in 3 easy lessons

Using await in scenarios where you want to await custom items with or without using Task.Run()

This article explores a message passing mechanism for safe thread to thread communication

An in depth guide on doing advanced MIDI things. Includes a demo Drum step sequencer and file slicer

A Pike virtual machine and optimizing compiler for regular expressions using an NFA engine

Provides a complete managed API for working with MIDI files, sequences and devices

A regex and finite state engine as part of PCK

Exploit the memory layout of your data to make your P/Invoke code more accessible and maintainable

How to marshal structs that the .NET marshaller just can't handle without a lot of help

A Pike VM for running non-backtracking NFA regular expressions in C#

Add fast scanners/tokenizers to your C# project

Add the ability to run a service in console mode and to control or install your service from the command line

Getting an accurate CodeDOM back from a C# source subset

A Tiny Dynamic Home Webserver in .NET that runs on Core and DNF both (Take 2)

A far more functional fan controller than before, and some powerful programming techniques

Take control of which thread your code gets executed on, and how it does

Diving into some of the core plumbing behind the Windows operating system

Take a page from .NET and enjoy an easy way to safely pass information between threads on an ESP32

A walkthrough of building a JSON based transparent caching entity framework with branch reuse that intelligently minimizes the amount of server requests, against the use case scenario of accessing TMDb's API