To convert a Hexadecimal to a number we can use an overload of Convert.ToInt32 method.

Using the overload I can convert for example hex string “BB” to a number.
int number = Convert.ToInt32("BB", 16);

And the number variable gets assigned value of 187.

This is where reflection comes in handy. The following code snippet shows you how to get the name of executing assembly.
string assemblyName;
assemblyName = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().FullName;
Console.WriteLine(assemblyName);

 
Output for the above code returns the fully qualified name as shown below

 
To just get the Assembly name we can use this snippet.
string assemblyName;
assemblyName = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name;
Console.WriteLine(assemblyName);

Here is the output.

This snippet shows you how to get information about all CD / DVD drives on your machine using WMI and C#. To run the code you need to add reference to System.Management.
ManagementObjectSearcher mgmtObjects =
new ManagementObjectSearcher("Select * from Win32_CDROMDrive");

foreach (var item in mgmtObjects.Get())
{
Console.WriteLine("Drive Letter - \t" + item["Drive"]);
Console.WriteLine("Name - [...]

To do this you will need to add references to System.Drawing and System.Windows.Forms. Make sure that you have following using statements:
using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Forms;

 
In your method add this code. It will take a screenshot of your primary screen and save it to a file.
Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width,
[...]

This code will retrieve a list of currently running process on a machine and write their names to console.

// Get A List of process using
// System.Diagnostics.Process class
List<Process> processes = Process.GetProcesses().ToList();

// Write them out to Console
processes.ForEach(x => Console.WriteLine(x.ProcessName));

I have a confession to make. When I saw var keyword for the first time I did not like it at all. My first opinion was that var was so variant like. Call me a control freak but I like to clearly see what I am declaring. And var was something I thought made the [...]

While browsing forums today I came across a question which asked for a solution to download a file from a web server programmatically. The solution is very simple and below is the code which achieves the goal. Here I am downloading a file asynchronously on Button Click.

1: private void buttonDownloadFile_Click(object sender, EventArgs [...]

To make an object cloneable in .NET we should implement ICloneable interface. ICloneable is a simple interface with only one method Clone(). In this post I will show you how to make a deep clone of an object.

class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
[...]

To get a list of installed applications we need to look into registry. Microsoft.Win32 namespace contains objects which can be used to work with Windows Registry. In this post I will show you some code where I use the power of LINQ to retrieve and display a list of all applications installed on a machine.
The [...]

ServiceControl can be used to get information about a Windows Service on a machine.  In this post I will show you how to retrieve information about a service using ServiceControl.
To begin with lets examine the properties for ServiceControl. Through the designer we can set the ServiceName property. This can be set to the name of [...]

Introduction
At times us developers have to deal with delimited text files in our applications. Such files have been around since yonks and I often come across data import/export tasks where delimited files are used. Till now the common way in .NET has been to read each line and then extract data using some sort of [...]

Event Log is a central place to log application events. These events can be errors, warnings or just information. Each event log entry in Windows Vista has a level of event, date and time the event occurred, source of event, an event Id and a task category. While event logs such as Application, System, Security [...]