Creating a Battery Power Status Monitor in C#
Sometimes programs need to know the power status of a computer. An example is Windows Update, which often requires a computer to be running on mains power before updates are installed. This article explains how to read the power status and battery life.
Mimicking the VB.NET with clause in C#
In .NET everything is 100% object orientated; this could build up complex hierarchies and will produce some performance issues. This article will take a look at one of them and try to solve it in the best way possible.
Speed Test: Switch vs If-Else-If
The .NET framework and the C# language provide two methods for conditional processing where multiple discrete values can be selected from. The switch statement is less flexible than the if-else-if ladder but is generally considered to be more efficient.
Speed Testing and the Stopwatch Class
Software must operate at a speed that is acceptable to the end user. Often large improvements can be made by improving the speed of short-lived but heavily used routines. The speed of these can be accurately measured using the .NET 2.0 Stopwatch class.
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