Writing software with OOP language like c# requires good encapsulation in order to have healthy code base and extensible system. To achieve this you have to use the internal, private, protected, public access modifiers properly. However, when you want to deserialize to an object which has private set properties using the default NewtonSoft.Json settings you are out of luck. It is pretty easy to achieve this.

The goal today is to add netstandard2.0 support to a class library which targets full .NET 4.5

We are going to explore the reasons why Pandora exists and what problems we could solve with Pandora. You will see one fragment of an application settings done with Pandora so you could get a general feeling about it.

I will create a simple windows installer. I do not pretend you should use it or the code bellow is a generic solution for building a windows service installers but it is very handy and you could quickly apply it to any project. The full source code is available in github project StatsD

The Visual Studio extension Format Document on Save enables auto formatting of the code when you save a file. Visual Studio supports formatting of the code with the CTRL+E,D or CTRL+E,F key shortcuts but with this extension the command ‘Format Document’ is executed on Save.

A simple way to check if a given stream has a video header.

A simple way to check if a given stream has an image header.