SavageCore

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ZacharyPatten

GitHub Repository Checklist (C#)

Have a repository on GitHub? Planning on making a repository on GitHub? This checklist is intended to introduce you to various features that may help you make the most of your GitHub repository with specific recommendations for C# repositories.

Checklist

These are only suggestions.
They may not be appropriate for all repositories.
They are in no particular order.
Click each item to expand for more information.

ZacharyPatten

Note: code examples are in C#, but the theory should be applicable to most programing languages

"How do I generate random numbers except for certain values?" - This is a relatively common question that I aim to answer with this post. I wrote some extension methods for the topic that look like this:

Random random = new();

int[] randomNumbers = random.Next(
    count: 5,
 minValue: 0,

ZacharyPatten

Value-Based Attributes in C#

This code is a snippet from the https://github.com/ZacharyPatten/Towel project. Please check out the project if you want to see more code like it. :)

Attributes in C# are great. They let you add metadata onto members of your code that can be dynamically looked up at runtime. However, they are also a bit of a pain to deal with. You generally have to make your own class that inherits System.Attribute and add a decent bit of boiler plate code to look up your attribute with reflection. Here is an example of making your own attribute:

ZacharyPatten

These are some notes about settings I like to use when I code in Visual Studio. They are completely optional.

• Automatic brace completion = false
• Dark Theme Tools -> Options -> Environment -> General
• Disable Semicolon Bullshit Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C# -> IntelliSense
  • Automatically complete statement on semicolon = false
• Control Click Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> General
  • Enable mouse click to perform Go to Definition = false
• Shift Key Overrides Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard

AdmiralSnyder

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApp1
{
    class TypeBase<TInterface>
    {
        public virtual Type TheInnerType { get; }
    }

ZacharyPatten

Omnitree

Date: July 8, 2014

Introduction

In this article, I would like to introduce and explain a data structure I have written in C#. This structure has the ability to store items sorted along "N" dimensions. It is similar in concept to a k-d tree (see Wikipedia), but it is NOT implemented as a binary tree. It branches relative to the number of dimensions its items are being sorted upon.

I developed the structure entirely on my own accord, and since I could not find another implementation like it, I am taking the liberty in giving it a name. I have called the structure an "Omni-Tree".

Background

ZacharyPatten

Accessing C#|VB|F# XML Code Documentation via Reflection

Date: April 24, 2019

In this post I will demonstrate how you can easily load C#|VB|F# XML code documentation and access it via reflection (using extension methods).

Note: The method described in this post only works if you are able to get the “.xml” file generated by Visual Studio when the code is built.

Author Edit (2020.7.27): The latest source code for this topics is included in the https://github.com/ZacharyPatten/Towel repository.

Why would you want to do this?

ZacharyPatten

C# Generic Math

Date: May 12, 2015

Introduction

I wanted to share a new pattern I developed for perform generic mathematics in C# using runtime compilation.

Over the years I've been coding I have seen several versions of generic math in C#, but none of them have been particularly good. In this section I would like to step through some examples I have seen, and explain why they do not make good patterns for generic math.

I developed this pattern to use as part of my Seven Framework project. Please check out the project here if you are interested: https://github.com/ZacharyPatten/SevenFramework

ZacharyPatten

Multiple String Replacement Extension Method

This code is an example of an extension method that performs multiple string replacements in one method.

This code is included in the Towel Project. Please check it out if you want to see more code like it. :)

using System;
using System.Linq;
using Towel;