JoshClose/CsvHelper. Developing an end-to-end Windows Store app using C++ and XAML: Hilo. Next page The Hilo end-to-end photo sample provides guidance to C++ developers that want to create a Windows 8 app using modern C++, XAML, the Windows Runtime, and recommended development patterns. Hilo comes with source code and documentation.
Download After you download the code, see Getting started with Hilo for instructions. Here's what you'll learn: How to use modern C++, asynchronous programming, XAML, and the Windows Runtime to build a world-ready app for the global market. Note If you're new to XAML, read XAML overview to learn more about its purpose and syntax. Tip Check out Scott Densmore's presentation where he talks about the Hilo project and offers many of the tips that you'll find in this guide: Tips for building a Windows Store app using XAML and C++: The Hilo project. Note To learn about building Hilo as a Windows Store app using JavaScript and HTML, see Developing an end-to-end Windows Store app using JavaScript: Hilo.
Prerequisites [Top] Table of contents at a glance Why XAML? Jon Skeet's C# and .NET articles and links. The code in all articles is C#-based, as that's the background I come from. Many of the concepts in the C# articles will be applicable to other .NET languages, but there may be some wrinkles which are C#-specific. The framework articles should be more language-agnostic, even though they are couched in C# terms. I have a book called C# in Depth, published by Manning. Hopefully if you find these articles useful, you'll find the book handy too. The first edition covers C# 2 and 3; the second edition (out now) covers C# 4 as well. I have a blog about C#, Java and other technologies. Many posts in the blog may well end up as full-blown articles. This page itself now has its own RSS feed. Back to my homepage. SqlMetal.exe (Code Generation Tool)
The SqlMetal command-line tool generates code and mapping for the LINQ to SQL component of the .NET Framework. By applying options that appear later in this topic, you can instruct SqlMetal to perform several different actions that include the following: From a database, generate source code and mapping attributes or a mapping file. From a database, generate an intermediate database markup language (.dbml) file for customization. From a .dbml file, generate code and mapping attributes or a mapping file. This tool is automatically installed with Visual Studio. Sqlmetal [options] [<input file>] To view the most current option list, type sqlmetal /? Connection Options Extraction options Output options Miscellaneous Input File SqlMetal functionality actually involves two steps: Extracting the metadata of the database into a .dbml file.
To extract the metadata from an .mdf file, you must specify the name of the .mdf file after all other options. sqlmetal /dbml:mymeta.dbml mydbfile.mdf. Orchard Project - Home Page. Enums – Better syntax, improved performance and TryParse in NET 3.5. Recently I needed to map external data into in-memory objects. In such scenarios the TryParse methods of Int and String are useful but where is Enum.TryParse? TryParse exists in .NET 4.0 but like a lot of people I’m on .NET 3.5.
A quick look at Enum left me scratching my head. Why didn’t enums receive the generic love that collections received in .NET 2.0? Why do I have to pass in typeof(MyEnum) everywhere? Why do I have to the cast results back to MyEnum all the time? I found myself with a small class, Enum<T> that solved all these. While there is some small memory overhead with the initial class (about 5KB for the first, a few KB per enum after) the performance benefits came as an additional bonus on top of the nicer syntax.
Before (System.Enum) After (Enum<T>) I also added a useful ParseOrNull method that lets you either return null or default using the coalesce so you don’t have to mess around with out parameters, e.g. MyEnumbers myValue = Enum<MyEnumbers>.ParseOrNull("Nine-teen") ??