Back in ancient times, one of the most popular MS-DOS utilities I wrote was the Fast File Finder. It wasn’t particularly fast, of course. But it did the job of finding a file anywhere on the PC’s hard drive when …
Following the Microsoft tutorial for building a .Net Standard library with Visual Basic from here, I have decided to make a video for .Net Standard library with C#. Pretty much, it is one and the same. The library contains one …
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Exactly 1 month and 5 days after the first video tutorial for the ASP.NET MVC with EF Core series, the last 10th video tutorial, following the Microsoft ones, is published. It is about advanced scenarios, and I have mentioned the …
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After updating the related data in the ASP.NET tutorial, it is time for the next step – handling concurrency in the MVC Application. These are the points, followed by the video: Learn about concurrency conflicts Add a tracking property Create …
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After reading complex the data, it is time to be able to update it. This video fills the following points from the ASP.NET MVC tutorial: Customize Courses pages Add Instructors Edit page Add courses to Edit page Update Delete page …
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Web API with Visual Studio 2019 is quite a bolierplate task – it is doable in less than 45 minutes, following the Microsoft.com tutorial: The video tutorial is here: The TodoController , implementing the CRUD actions looks like this: using System.Collections.Generic; …
After the first video for MVC here, I have decided to make a next part, in which I save the entries to a database and display them: Sounds like a tiny update. However, it …
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The longest palindromic substring algorithm exists since 1975. It is different (and easier) than the longest palindromic subsequence. The idea of the substring is to return “anana”, if “bananazorro” is given. This is achieved with a 2 dimensional boolean array matrix and …
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Good software comes with tests. Fortunately, Visual Studio 2019 provides quite nice ways to test the software you are creating. One of these is xUnit – xunit.net. Thus, I have decided to make a video, showing how to implement xUnit …
C# – xUnit Test Implementation in Fibonacci Calculation – Video Read more »
I have started reading the 2nd edition of the Pro ASP.NET Core MVC book and after reading the first couple of chapters, I have decided to make a video of the application in the second chapter. The code is about …
Reading from Excel in C# is actally not at tough as many VBA developers would assume. The simple reading is actually quite straightforward – there is only small little trick, requiring the adding of the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel reference to the Visual …
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Getting the last row of a given column in Excel with a formula or with VBA is quite a trivial task. It is explained here quite well 🙂 However, when we come to C#, the only “trick” that is provided …
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Finding the biggest square of specific units in a given matrix of these units is a standard dynamic programming problem. The examples in Google for it are above 18 million, thus I would simply show how it is done with …
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Some days ago I have decided to take a look at one of the homeworks problem of the OOP course at SoftUni. Then, I have decided to solve it with my VBA OOP knowledge, implementing it in C#. Whether VBA …
Abstract Classes in C# are classes, intended only to be a base class of other classes. Members marked as abstract, or included in an abstract class, must be implemented by classes that derive from the abstract class. Reference With other …
In this article, I present an Entity Framework example, building two tables with foreign keys, using code first. The sample I am using is building over the previous article for EF. Pretty much, when you are running your application, if …
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Going to a casino is probably quite an easy way to lose money. In the long term. Let’s say that you are following the strategy – always double when you lose and you bet on numbers above 18 on the …
C# – Casino Black and Red Simulation – is it Worthy? Read more »
Using Visual Studio and Excel is actually quite fun – the Visual Studio advanced environment provides a bit more possibilities than the Visual Basic Editor, built-in Excel. In this article, about a year ago I have shown how to loop …
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Solving problems at CodeForces is a kind of hobby. Lately, in round 449, division 2, there was a problem which has met my interest. It has to do with palindromes and really big numbers. The problem is easy to calculate, …
Time has passed since my last review in VitoshAcademy and thus I have requested a new great book from Apress.com for a review. Although I am not a C++ developer (and I have never been paid to develop on anything …
In order to learn a language, the best way is to practise it! Thus, I have decided to challange myself to solve a task on CodeForces with VBScript. As far as VBScript is not one of the official CodeForces languages …
Every time, wherever I decide to take a look at CodeForces and to code & publish some of the easy problems, I am thinking that this is probably the last one, because it is too easy. However, I always find …
Another SoftUni algorithm problem that I have considered interesting is presented here: You are given an integer S. Generate all non-empty sequences of numbers in range [1…S], which have sum of elements ≤ S. Display the sequences in their natural order, …
Y = mX+B This formula is the basics of the Cartesian coordinate system. And about 70% of the knowledge, needed to solve problem B in the 2. Division of CodeForces. The problem looks like this: There are n points on a coordinate …
The first problem in CodeForces, division 2 is usually an implementation problem. This means that after reading it, a Joe-average algorithmic person would know how to write it in less than 5 minutes. Or so I thought, before seeing this …
Magic tickets are considered the tickets in which the sum of the left digits is equal to the sum of the right digits. E.g., if you ticket is number 124016 it is a magic ticket, because 1+2+4 = 0 + …
CodeForces.com has become something like a hobby – instead of thinking about a topic for an article, I simply solve a problem there and blog about it. Thus, lately I have taken a look at Round 428, Division 2, problem …
CodeForces.com is one of the reasons why I blog quite often. Last week, in round 427 there was an interesting problem, which I was eager to solve. The problem was described as follows: The Cartesian coordinate system is set in …
CodeForces.com is the web site, which shows problems for competitive programmers. Today I have decided to take a look at the 2. problem of the 2. division of Round 424 –Keyboard Layouts. The problem is pretty simple to explain for …
Codeforces has easy and tough questions. However, the easy are not always easy, but the tough are always tough. Thus, after writing the Excel article here for Sumproduct, I have decided to go a bit easy and start with the …