2023年初，我习惯性的打开UWP的Mail app，来收发一下日常Email。但是，令我遗憾的是，它已经建议我尝试新版Mail App了。 不出我所料，新的Windows自带的Mail app是网页套壳的，而不是UWP。这意味着微软自从VSCode和Teams的成功之后，在网页套壳的道路上越走越远。以至于将网页套壳的魔爪继续伸向Outlook。 我曾经在Windows 10发布之初，盼望着会有一天用上 UWP 的 Visual Studio，谁知等了数年，却用上了 exe 的 MSEdge 和 网页套壳的 Mail。 UWP 这个本是 Windows 最后一次技术上的变革已经宣告失败。但，我想在念它的悼词之前，或许还可以回顾这个框架的一生。它诞生时的野心、困难、逆天的技术变革、解决了大量的问题、新的平台等。 UWP 本是优秀的框架 如果一定要让我总结一下 UWP，我想最好的说法就是：成功 …
When I search this topic from Google, I always get results with 'How to write C# program in VS Code'. But what I was working on is an editor, which allows the user to open VS Code to edit a folder. My UI is like this: So what should I do to open the folder in VSCode? Code is below: Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo { UseShellExecute = true, // IMPORTANT: …
Sometimes, we need to check if the input is valid. Usually, we may do this: if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(InputArgument.TargetMachine) || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(InputArgument.PatchId)) { throw new ArgumentException($"Invalid input argument! Patch ID: '{InputArgument.PatchId}', Target Machine: '{InputArgument.TargetMachine}'!"); …
A extension class for string to add GZip features. Copy the following code to your project first. using System; using System.IO; using System.IO.Compression; using System.Text; public static class GZipExtensions { private static byte[] Zip(string str) { var bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(str); using (var msi = new MemoryStream( …
Do not use the Console class to display output in unattended applications, such as server applications. Calls to methods such as Console.Write and Console.WriteLine have no effect in GUI applications. Using Console.WriteLine in a library tightly couples your library to …
Just built a simple retry engine in C#. /// /// Retry engine. /// public class RetryEngine { private static Random rnd = new Random(); private readonly ILogger logger; /// /// Creates new retry engine. /// /// Logger public RetryEngine( …
How to query Kusto (Azure data explorer) in C# and get strong type result? First, build an abstract class as a Kusto response row. public abstract class KustoResponseRow { public void SetPropertiesFromReader(IDataReader reader) { foreach (var property in this.GetType().GetProperties()) { if (property.SetMethod != null) { property. …
Recently, I found that almost every time I creates a new .NET app, I gonna need cache service. While Microsoft officially provides the IMemoryCache, I found that it is pretty complicated for you to use it. For it requires a lot of code. So I wrapped it to a more common one. Before starting, make sure the project references Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory and Microsoft.Extensions.Logging. …
Before starting, you need your git client configured. var credentials = new VssBasicCredential(userName: string.Empty, password: this.config.Key); this.vssConnection = new VssConnection(new Uri(this.config.BaseUrl), credentials); if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.config.Key)) { this.gitClient = this.vssConnection.GetClient …
Recently I was trying to build a server management tool. That I need to connect to my server (Ubuntu) programmatically. I usually access my server via SSH, as a normal human. So I wanna do it with the same approach. First, create a new .NET Core project with: dotnet new console After creating the new project, install the latest SSH.NET library. Reference: NuGet Gallery | SSH.NET 2020.0.1 And …
When we are using Azure DevOps to review PR, it's simple and easy to use. Usually, we only run tests and build tasks, like this: In my previous blog, I mentioned how to run test and generate code coverage for CI pipelines: Display code coverage information for .NET Core project using Azure DevOps. - Anduin Xue (aiursoft.com) -------------- JetBrains ReSharper and Rider are impressive C# grammar …
Imagine I have 100 tasks to run. But my machine has only 16 core. So I expect that every core will run one task in parallel. And once a core is idle, assign a new task to it. That will be very easy for C# with Task. But before starting, we gonna create a thread-safe queue for saving our tasks. public class SafeQueue<T> { private readonly Queue<T> queue = new Queue& …