Apr
28th

A Programming Job Interview Challenge

Posted by Shahar Y |
Filed under Unmanaged Code |

Recently, I ran into an interesting job interview question in C++ which I want to share. Lets take a look at the following code:

// Option A. 

char str1[] = “example”;  

str1[1] = ‘a’;  

// Option B.  

char* str2 = “example”;  

str2[1] = ‘a’;

What would happen if we compile and run this code ?


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Apr
21st

A Bug in WPF Static Resources?

Posted by Amit |
Filed under C#, WPF |

Yesterday I played around with WPF resources and stumbled on a very strange behavior. It seems that the order of the elements in the resources have some importance as to how the application handles them. A few code examples are attached


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Mar
27th

A Better Way to Extract Data from DateTime

Posted by Amit |
Filed under .Net, C# |

Lately I took part in several code reviews and I noticed that whenever people need to extract the month name from the datetime object many different solutions are presented. Some of the solutions were not very successful, so I decided to shed some light on this issue through an example.
These are the most common (and [...]


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