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ILSpy plugin to decompile an assembly with Reflection.Emit API calls

Apr 2, 2018

Occasionally I do stuff that's just for fun and has little industrial significance (it's sad how often those two factors seem to correlate...). One of my hobbies involves diving deep into the .NET framework and creating fun projects. One of these projects were IL-Boss, whose remnants

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Create a filtered index using Entity Framework Code First

Akos Nagy

Apr 1, 2018

Using Entity Framework Code First, you have the option of specifying indices on columns that are translated to migrations and from that you can generate the SQL script or update the database. With EF 6.2 you can use the new HasIndex() method to define your indices. Before 6.2,

dotNet Falcon update

Akos Nagy

Mar 26, 2018

You might have noticed that in the last few months I haven't put out as many posts as I usually do. Well, here's a post explaining why (or rather, trying to make some excuses). I am working on a couple of things (stay tuned for other

Iterating through dictionaries the better way

Akos Nagy

Mar 24, 2018

Using the right collection type at the right place is a challenging task. In my experience, most people just use List<T or Dictionary<TKey,TValue> most of the time, without thinking about other possibilities. Now that's not to say that these two are not

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DispatcherTimer with MVVM in WPF

Akos Nagy

Dec 17, 2017

My speciality is backend, but sometimes I have to do frontend as well. I don't really like it, but I guess that's life. Sometimes I even have to do frontend with ancient technologies like WPF. Again, I guess that's life. So a colleague of

Using IReadonlyDictionary instead of IIndex with Autofac

Akos Nagy

Dec 7, 2017

Dependency injection is awesome. And Autofac is probably the best DI-container out there. It's like magic :) I really like to fiddle around with special registration concepts, like here, here or here. Or down below :) Keyed service registration and resolving Autofac has a great set of features called implicit

Adding bytes in C#

Akos Nagy

Nov 20, 2017

What happens if you run this little piece of code? More specifically, what's the type of the variable 'x'? byte b1=1; byte b2=1; var x=b1+b2; Console.WriteLine(x.GetType()); Well, if you guessed byte, you were wrong. This will actually result in

Extending Linq2Objects GroupBy

Akos Nagy

Nov 15, 2017

GroupBy() is one of the most versatile and underrated Linq standard query operator there is. You probably know the "base" version, which takes in a single parameter in the form of an expression (actually, Func, but that's not the point): public static IEnumerable<IGrouping<

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Modern UI for WPF Autofac based contentloader

Akos Nagy

Nov 15, 2017

I'm not much of a UI guy, but sometimes I have to take part in projects that are front-end heavy. And sometimes this means desktop front-end (there's still a surprisingly heavy demand for these kinds of application). The application I've been working on lately

Implementing interface with auto properties

Akos Nagy

Nov 10, 2017

A cool feature in VS2017: when implementing an interface, you can now use auto properties. Here's what I'm talking about: let's say you have an interface, and you have properties in it. Something like this: public interface IInterface { int MyProperty { get; set; } } Then, you