Background Sometimes we still need to maintain some legacy code that was written ages ago. A long time ago, MFC library was the default choice for many programmers wanted to develop a Windows Desktop Application in C++. Today, there are much better alternatives for the Desktop Applications developments that include: …

Background In one of my previous posts, I wrote about deserializing XML with namespace using XmlSerializer that requires creating custom model classes in order to perform the serialization. Today, I am going to cover another powerful method for parsing - LINQ to XML. My Stack Xml element tag Visual Studio 2019 …

Background Starting Windows 7, Microsoft added a capability for displaying recently used files. This usually includes documents, pictures, and movies we've recently accessed. These files can be seen in various Windows components, including: Recent files Recent items Start menu or application's Jump List The …

Introduction In my previous article, I covered serializing/deserializing JSON in C++ to a simple object using RapidJSON. When working with JSON, my goal is to work always with object models and keep the actual JSON parsing behind the scenes. This keeps the readability and maintainability of the code as JSON …

Introduction In one of my projects in C++, I had to work with an input in JSON format as we were using Django Web API that produces a JSON response for REST API calls. Parsing the JSON format in C++ should be easy with the open source libraries such as RapidJSON, nlohmann/jsonm, Boost.JSON. My goal was to work with …

Background .NET core provides a generics class List to store a strongly types objects that can be accessed by index. This class provides us with many methods to add, remove, access, sort or manipulate the objects within the list. In this sample, I am going to demonstrate the following Reverse options: Reverse using …

Introduction I've been seeing a lot of repeated questions of difficulties deserializing XML files that have a namespace. In this post, I will provide some samples in C# of how to deserialize such XML files with minimal amount of code. My goal for this article is to provide working examples with minimal amount of code …

Today, I am going to demonstrate a simple way to check if the current executing user has a writing permission for a directory in the Windows file system. I came across this issue in a project when I needed to write a utility program that would do the following: Output a list of all directories that the current user is …