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C# Chat Application Over Asynchronous UDP Sockets – Part 1, The Server

by Dave on August 3, 2009

in Articles, Internet

In this two-part article series I am going to show you how to implement a simple client-server chat application using asynchronous UDP sockets. In this first article of the series I will be focusing on the server of our chat application. The client will be discussed in part two. What is UDP? UDP, or User [...]

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File Comparison in C# – Part 3

by Dave on July 20, 2009

in Articles, Files and Directories

In this third and final article of my File Comparison in C# series we will be creating a method which compares file hashes. I suggest you read File Comparison in C# – Part 1, and File Comparison in C# – Part 2 before continuing with this article, if you haven’t already done so. What is [...]

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File Comparison in C# – Part 2

by Dave on July 18, 2009

in Articles, Files and Directories

In my previous article – File Comparison in C# – Part 1 – I showed you how to create a simple method which compares the file size of two files using the System.IO.FileInfo class. In this article, we will be building upon that previous article so I suggest you read it here before continuing. Now [...]

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File Comparison in C# – Part 1

by Dave on July 16, 2009

in Articles, Files and Directories

As a developer you might need to compare files for equality, maybe because you want to verify that your backups are valid, or maybe because you want to search for duplicate files in a folder. Either way you will need to compare two files together, and I am going to show you how. There are [...]

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The MessageBox Explained

by Dave on June 20, 2009

in Articles, Windows Forms

The whole concept behind a message box is to display text to the user or to ask a question of some sort. So in practice we can use message boxes to display an error to the user, or maybe to ask the user to confirm something before continuing. A C# MessageBox is a read-only dialog [...]

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