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FindDuplicate: Find duplicate files quickly in C#
If you’re like me, you’ve got a slew of duplicate files lurking all over your hard drive. I couldn’t find any programs for windows that would allow me to find duplicate files for free, so I decided to write this simple console application. It will take a few parameters and allow you to find files [...]
How to suppress “beep” when pressing enter
I’m sitting here writing a chat application and needed a way to suppress the beep sound when the enter key was pressed on my text entry box. It’s a single-line Rich Text control and I had thought it was just a matter of setting KeyChar to 0 on the key press event. In fact, this [...]
GloboResource: Use Google to Translate your Visual Studio RESX strings
There exists a need to globalize your applications but copying and pasting each string from a resource file into Google translate is tiresome. 3rd party applications are fraught with translation errors and/or are expensive. Simply put there exists a need to have a simple way to extract resource strings from RESX files and have them [...]
ProgramInfo class: Retrieving custom assembly attributes in C# for Name, Copyright, and Version
There may exist a need to programmatically retrieve a program’s assembly attributes to provide product information to a user. This can be problematic if you are not using the System.Windows.Forms.Application library. Retrieving this information however is still possible using commands within the System.Reflection.Assembly class. I have encapsulated the most commonly used attributes in the following [...]
ApplicationList: Retrieving a list of installed applications using WMI in C#
There is a need to display a list of installed applications on a remote (or local) computer and in my hour of searching for an example found that no complete c# source existed. I decided to convert the VBscript examples I did find into a simple c# console application and the following code was created. [...]
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