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Month: January 2012

How to extract words from a string in C# (Split string)

31st January 2012 / Leave a Comment

This is incredibly easy in C#. First of all, you need to have a string from which you want to extract words. A word is a string separated by spaces. To do that, just say:

string s = "Welcome to my blog!";

Now, when I use the Split command, it will return an array of individual strings. So, the implementation will be:

string[] words = s.Split(" ",StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

As a result, words array will contain “Welcome”, “to”, “my”, “blog!”.

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Google Chrome vs Mozilla Firefox

26th January 2012 / Leave a Comment

Well, they said that Mozilla firefox is the most efficient browser. I wasn’t satisfied. Hence, I went to check. I am a big fan of Google Chrome. However, I recently learnt that chrome collects browsing information. That didn’t sound good to me and hence I switched to Mozilla Firefox. On the download page, it said that it is the most efficient browser. I downloaded it, but initially I had some issues. It lagged a bit when I used it on my laptop. However, when I used it on my university’s mac (with Windows 7 installed) it was smooth. Hence I was suspicious. I had to check. I closed all applications, refreshed the page few times and fired up Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

I opened up www.sciencedaily.com in both the browsers. I fired up Task Manager only to find that Google chrome had three simultaneous processes and firefox had one. This probably means that it is doing multi-threading a lot and has a lot of external handlers. It is a good practice though when you are programming something like a web browser. However, I counted the memory allocated and firefox had like 88,000 and Google Chrome had in total something like 50,000. I was surprised.

Then, to satisfy myself that Firefox is better, I opened two tabs in both chrome and firefox. In one tab, I opened the google home page and in another I opened up www.sciencedaily.com. This time, I hoped chrome to jump up. The task manager showed that chrome had four processes, one more than last time I had seen and firefox still had one process. In terms of memory, firefox allocated something like 120,000 and chrome took something like 90,000. I was even more surprised. My quick analysis at that point was that the memory print of chrome increases rapidly with increase in number of tabs while in same conditions, that of firefox increases at relatively slower rate.

In the third test, in which I seriously hoped firefox to win, I opened up four tabs as follows:
1. Tab 1: www.google.com
2. Tab 2: www.sciencedaily.com
3. Tab 3: www.bing.com
4. Tab 4: news.google.com

This time, firefox really won. Its memory print was around 143,000 while at the same time, that of chrome was around 150,000. Yayy! Victory at last!

So, well, what does this tell to average computer user? I will still be using firefox. However, if I quickly want to check something like a definition or address, I’d use chrome. However, for tab intensive stuff like research and like that, I will be using firefox.

FYI:
Chrome: 12.0.742.122
Firefox: 5.0

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Writing multi-threaded code in C#

24th January 2012 / Leave a Comment

Threading in C# is no big deal. It has the easiest implementation I’ve ever seen. First of all, you need to have a method that you want to execute on a different thread. For this instance, I’ll put method called Calculate(). Now, this method has to be a void. However, it can take any amount of parameters. So, it can be:

public void Calculate()

or

public void Calculate(int x, int y)

Now that we know what to execute, we need to create a thread with this method. This is done by:

Thread t = new Thread(Calculate());

I can now run the thread by typing:

t.Start();

See Also: How do I do threaded programming in Java?

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Multi-threaded programming in Java

24th January 2012 / Leave a Comment

My favorite concept in any programming language is Threading. It is awesome. This time, I’ll get started straight away!

First of all, before making a thread in java, you need a runnable. Runnable is basically like a piece of code that you want to execute as a separate thread. There are two ways to create a runnable. You can do it by making an anonymous class such as:

Runnable r = new Runnable(){

public void run(){

//Your code goes here...

}
}
However, this is not a good practice. Hence, it is advised to create a separate class which implements the Runnable interface like:


public class MyNewRunnable implements Runnable{


MyNewRunnable(){


}


public void run(){
//Your code here...
}
}

 

In this manner, you can pass any parameters for processing the information using the class constructor. For instance, if you are making a runnable for downloading files, you can pass url of the file through the class constructor. Now, once you have created your runnable, you need a thread in which you have to put the runnable. Then you run the thread, the run method of runnable gets executed. For runnable r, you can make a thread as follows:

Thread t = new Thread(r);

Then, you can start the thread by typing:

t.start();

I’d say that threading would help make your program more responsive. This is solely because of the fact that all the heavy processor hungry tasks are carried out in a separate thread and the UI thread is kept clean.

See Also: How do I do threading in C#?

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How to make a login page in ASP .NET C#

22nd January 2012 / Leave a Comment

In this post, I will teach you guys about making a simple login using common page controls. First of all, you need two textboxes, one for username and another for password. I’ll call them usernameTextBox and passwordTextBox for this example. Drag down a button and call it loginButton. Now, in the OnClick event of loginButton, you need to check if the provided combination of username and password is correct or not. You can only do this if you have username and passwords stored somewhere. It is recommended to use a database to do this. Create a AccountDetails table in your database. The table should have username and password fields, both as text (VARCHAR for SQL). The way login is going to work is that you select records from AccountDetails table who have the provided username and password. This query should return one row if the combination matches. If not, then it should return nothing. Here’s the query you need to pass:

string query = "SELECT * FROM AccountDetails WHERE username='"+usernameTextBox.Text + "' AND pass='" + passwordTextBox.Text + "'";
Supply this query to the command object. This can be OleDbCommand or SqlCommand depending on your type of database. Invoke the ExecuteReader method of the command object and then check if the Read method of the DataReader object returns true. If it does then this means that the login is successful. If not, then login is invalid. Here’s a sample code.

string connectionString = "...";
OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(connectionString);
conn.Open();
string queryString = "SELECT * FROM AccountDetails WHERE username='"+usernameTextBox.Text + "' AND pass='" + passwordTextBox.Text + "'";
OleDbCommand command = new OleDbCommand(queryString, conn);
OleDbDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();
if(reader.Read()){
//Login is successful.
}else{
//Login failed.
}
Thats it! Your ASP website should now have a wonderful login to allow geniune users. To extend its capabilities, store the username in a session and then in PageLoad event of rest of the pages which require login, check if the session contains something. If it is null, then the page should redirect to login page. Same if for log-out. In the PageLoad event of the login page, check if the session username contains something. If it does, then clear out the session and display some notification saying that the user has been logged out. Now, in your page, to which the user gets redirected after successful login, put a simple link to login.

Now, initially when user lands on the login page, the session username will be empty. However, on typing correct username and password, this session gets filled with the username of the logged user and he/she is redirected to some sort of dashboard page. When the user clicks on the log-out link, he/she gets redirected to the login page which first checks if there is anything in the session. Since the user has previously logged in, there will be a username inside that session. Login page clears it out and displays a message saying that the user has been logged out. I hope that was easy.

If you have any queries or doubts, feel free to comment below.
If you want to know how session works, click here to see my post on Sessions.

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