Coding Cookbook

C# Stuff

A collection of (mostly) C# recipes for doing stuff in the .NET Framework.

• Multi-Threaded Events and Event Handler - Appropriate when trying to build a multi-threaded application where one of those threads fires events.

• Configuration File Reader - Allows an app to take in configuration parameters without the use of command line arguments.

• Change Windows Wallpaper - Appropriate for pranks and such.

• Download a URL - Grabs something off the internet.

• Read a File

• Taking a Screenshot

• Get a Temporary Filename

• GDI+ Color and HatchStyle chart

• Serialize an Object

• http://www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/blog/2008/01/10/bind-to-methods-with-objectdataprovider Binding to Methods with ObjectDataProvider

• Drop-In Reflection-based ToString() method

• File name from Path

• Scratch