Visual Studio–Painlessly Renaming Your Project and Solution Directories
Working in Visual Studio, we often find ourselves needing to rename our project and/or solution and the directories they live in. In particular, when we clone a project from Github, what we end up with the a complete, workable...
Keep Nuget Packages Out of Source Control with Nuget Package Manager Restore
Image by thebarrowboy | Some Rights Reserved Nuget is cool. What is not cool is when you push a project to source control and include a ton of installed packages, bulking up your repo with stuff that could be easily pulled in via...
Use Cross-Platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to Read Excel Files with No Dependencies on Office or ACE
Image by Elif Ayiter | Some Rights Reserved I recently posted an article about LinqToExcel, a fantastic library I discovered while trying to solve a problem for a work-related project. The premise was that I wanted a library I...
C#: Create and Manipulate Word Documents Programmatically Using DocX
Image by Mohylek – Some Rights Reserved In a recent post, I extolled the virtues of a wonderful OSS library I had found for working with Excel data programmatically, LinqToExcel. In that post, I also mentioned a fantastic...
C#: Query Excel and .CSV Files Using LinqToExcel
Image by Elif Ayiter – Some Rights Reserved In my quest to get a rather hack-ey work project DONE and off my machine, I discovered a couple exceptionally useful OSS tools for working with MS Excel data, and at the same...