Problem> There is a binary file (I’ll use an Excel file) that you want to embed in any C# assembly. Later on, at runtime, you want to extract the file from the EXE and continue working on it. In this post, I will share the code and describe how you can do that. You can use the same technique for any other kind of binary file as well. Solution> First up, the reason why you may choose to embed a resource directly into your EXE is to ensure that no one tampers your file on which your code is... [More]

Well... first of all, open ILDASM and drag/drop your EXE.   The application is called Attributes, and contains an annotated class, some annotated methods and fields. Notice the .custom instance void Attributes.xxxxxxxxx highlighted above. This tells you that the class is annotated. Now, how would you tell if Bar, Foo, and FooBar methods or AttributedVar, NonAttributedVar are annotated or not? (as if the names were not self-explanatory) Double clicking on AnotherAttributedVar and NonAttri... [More]

I have already shown how to use .NET reflection to get the information about all the colors in .NET. Let's say you want to check out how a specific colored font would appear on any background, you may like to check this sample. Use the code which follows to get an output like the one below. There are various ways to get this output, but I guess this code is pretty small and will show you some of the things that you could do with System.Reflection in .NET. Here is the code... <%@ ... [More]

When you work on designing a website, you may find it difficult to remember all the color names and visualize them. At least, I am personally not very good with color selection and find it really hard to recall the color names. So, in this scrap we will check out how to use .NET reflection to print out all the color names along with the colors... There is a very small piece of C# code which I have used here to create a 2 column color table. Check the sample And here is the code that would ... [More]