Type conversion example in C# .NET using the IConvertible interface

December 2, 2015 1 Comment

In this we saw how to convert between numeric types explicitly and implicitly. There are other ways to implement conversions in C#. You must have come across the System.Convert static methods such as System.ConvertToInt32 or System.ConvertToByte.

You can implement your own conversions by implementing the IConvertible interface. Consider the following object:

public class House
{
	public double Area { get; set; }
	public int NumberOfRooms { get; set; }
	public string Address { get; set; }
	public bool ForSale { get; set; }
        public DateTime DateBuilt { get; set; }
}

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Keyword function arguments in C#

December 1, 2015 Leave a comment

In this post we’ll quickly go through positional vs. keyword function arguments in C#.

Say you have the following function:

public string GetContent(bool base64encode, bool compress, bool withUniqueId, string filename, int maxSize)
{
	return string.Empty;
}

You’ll learn very early in your programming class that you can call a function by supplying the arguments in exactly the same order as they are listed in the method signature. Here’s an example:

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Wiring up a custom authentication method with OWIN in Web API Part 5: abstracting away the auth logic

November 30, 2015 2 Comments

Introduction

In the previous post we built the necessary OWIN components for our custom authentication logic: the middleware and the extension method that’s attached to the IAppBuilder object. We also diverged a little and discussed how to use the Use extension method to inject the necessary objects into the constructor of the middleware class.

In this post we’ll extend PinAuthenticationHandler so that the actual authentication logic can be easily changed.

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5 ways to concatenate strings with C# .NET

November 27, 2015 6 Comments

There are multiple ways to build a string out of other strings in .NET. Here come 5 of them.

Let’s start with the most obvious one that language learners encounter first, i.e. concatenation done by the ‘+’ operator:

string concatenatedOne = "This " + "is " + "a " + "concatenated " + "string.";

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Wiring up a custom authentication method with OWIN in Web API Part 4: putting the components to work

November 26, 2015 1 Comment

Introduction

In the previous post we built two important components around the custom authentication logic. First off, we wrote a very simple implementation of the abstract AuthenticationOptions class where we only declared the name of the authentication mode. You can anyway add any extra property and overloaded constructors as you wish to this class. Then we built the custom authentication handler, i.e. PinAuthenticationHandler which derives from the abstract AuthenticationHandler class.

In this post we’ll add a couple more components specifically to add our authentication handler to the OWIN chain. We’ll also test the authentication logic.

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How to hide the key pressed in a .NET console application

November 25, 2015 Leave a comment

You probably know how to read the key pressed by the user in a .NET console application by the Console.ReadKey() method:

ConsoleKeyInfo pressedKey = Console.ReadKey();
Console.WriteLine("You have pressed: {0}", pressedKey.Key);

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Implementing an indexer for your object with C# .NET

November 24, 2015 1 Comment

Indexers are used extensively when accessing items in an array or List:

Friend f = friends[2];

It’s fairly easy to implement your own indexer. Imagine a table with guests sitting around. We could implement an indexer to easily access guest #n.

The Guest object is simple with only one property:

public class Guest
{
	public string Name { get; set; }
}

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Wiring up a custom authentication method with OWIN in Web API Part 3: the components

November 23, 2015 Leave a comment

Introduction

In the previous post we looked at HTTP headers in code. We saw how to collect the headers from a request and a response and how to check for the presence of a certain header type. We also built a simple tester C# console application that sends a web request to our Web API controller and sets the necessary custom authentication header.

In this post we’ll start building the components necessary for the OWIN middleware.

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Join custom objects into a concatenated string in .NET C#

November 20, 2015 Leave a comment

Say you have the following Customer object with an overridden ToString method:

public class Customer
{
	public int Id { get; set; }
	public string Name { get; set; }
	public string City { get; set; }

	public override string ToString()
	{
		return string.Format("Id: {0}, name: {1}, city: {2}", Id, Name, City);
	}
}

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Wiring up a custom authentication method with OWIN in Web API Part 2: the headers

November 19, 2015 1 Comment

Introduction

In the previous post we discussed the main topic of this series and started building a demo application with a single Customers controller. The goal of this series is to show how to register your custom authentication mechanism with OWIN as a Katana component.

In this post we’ll be concentrating on the request headers. We’ll also see a couple of functions that will later be part of the OWIN middleware when we’re ready to convert the code.

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