Conception using generics and reflection of a search engine to index and search content in your business entities without being intrusive. Part 1 and 2 are available following those links Indexing and searching business entities using Lucene.Net Framework, part 1 Indexing and searching business entities...

Conception using generics and reflection of a search engine to index and search content in your business entities without being intrusive. Part 1 is available following this link Indexing and searching business entities using Lucene.Net Framework, part 1 Lucene.Net presentation Lucene.Net is an open...

Conception using generics and reflection of a search engine to index and search content in your business entities without being intrusive. Introduction Today, one of the functionality that almost all web sites implements is a method to index content and give it users the possibility to search that content...

I'm a big fan of .NET Generics. In fact, I can't believe I lived without them in .NET 1.1. Generics are pretty much the most powerful feature for C# 2.0. They allow you to define type safe data structures. They give a huge boost in performance, and they allow us to move away from DataTables and DataSets...

In my current code, I find myself accessing many Sharepoint web services. In one run of code I can access 5-6 different web services on dozens of different sites, not necessarily even on the same server. Given that I find myself writing a lot of boilerplate code looking like this: using (SiteData siteDataWS...

I stumbled across an interesting conversation on Jeff's(I am not speaking in the third person, this Jeff ) blog. Like any other time, I have plenty to say on the matter.... Microsoft (via FxCop) suggests that you don't expose List<T> via public members. I think the reasons I have heard...

With processors set to scale at the CPU level instead of the Mhz level, wouldn't it be great if you could write some code like: StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder(); foreach (MyObj o in collection) { string val; async { val = doSomethingHard(o); } sync { output.Append(val); } } and have the...

How to sort a generic list? Well, generic list provides a sort method itself in the form List<T>.Sort(). But wait a sec. This method requires you to implement sorting mechanism in your type. This is because this method uses default sorting mechanism. This is really simple, but what if you don't...

The other day I was working with some generic lists of some custom classes. All of these classes inherited from a common base class. I wanted to write a method where I could pass any of my generic lists to this method and iterate over the list and execute some other code. I thought this was a perfect...

What if you like to call a web service and retry the call again until response? let me show you a nice way to call a function with retry until you retrieve what ever is needed from the function. This could be achieved by using generics especially by extending the Func<T> delegate; check the code...