Category Archives: Dennis-IT Tools

Filtering a Dictionary List

Posted on March 22, 2015 by trev

One important component I needed for my Systems Directorate application is the ability to filter rows from a dictionary list and get the matching and non-matching rows. This article will describe the set of extension methods I created to perform … Continue reading →

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Some useful string extensions

Posted on March 22, 2015 by trev

I have created a useful set of string extensions in C# for doing many string operations like conversions to and from numbers, formatting, and escaping. Most of these were required by the application that I’m working on but are very … Continue reading →

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Macro Resolution via Dictionaries

Posted on March 18, 2015 by trev

In my Systems Directorate application, I needed a way of handling macro resolution so that the user could easily substitute values when configuring parts of the application. For most of the application, I have standardized on a Dictionary<string,object> structure for … Continue reading →

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My Excellent Database Library

Posted on February 5, 2012 by trev

I was going to talk about a new feature that I had just added to my database library, but then I realized that I haven’t talked about the library at all yet.  I guess that I planned to for so … Continue reading →

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Serializing data quickly and easily

Posted on January 29, 2011 by trev

Have you ever had a class with a bunch of data in it that you needed to store easily in a file or database field? Serialization is usually the easiest answer. But, what should it be serialized to? The best … Continue reading →

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