Tag: Development

  • C# : Converting DateTime to format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ

    I found that lots of people were searching to convert the datetime into the universal format. Following can be used for the same.

    myDateTime.ToString(“u”)

    OR

    string strDate = DateTime.UtcNow.ToString(“yyyy’-‘MM’-‘dd’T’HH’:’mm’:’ss’Z’”, DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo);

    The custom format string is “yyyy’-‘MM’-‘dd HH’:’mm’:’ss’Z’”.

  • Regex for AlphaNumeric password validation

    Regular Expression for validating the string

    (?!^[0-9]*$)(?!^[a-zA-Z]*$)^([a-zA-Z0-9]{8,20})$

    The above RegEx requires at least one digit and at least one alphabetic character. It does not allow special characters. The length must be from 8 to 20 characters.

  • Accessing System information through Environment in C#

    The Environment List

    When a program is executed, it is also passed a list of current environmental variables (such as HOME, PATH etc). This is the same in both Unix and Windows. The following code example shows how a call to Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables returns all the currently defined variables.

    The following code explores the various members of the Environment class. The interesting information is probably not in the interface but in the different responses that are returned by the Windows Visual C# encoded version.

    namespace demoApp
    {
    class MainClass
    {
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
    Console.WriteLine(“Current Directory={0}”, Environment.CurrentDirectory); // Current working directory of the program
    Console.WriteLine(“CommandLine={0}”, Environment.CommandLine); // Command line used to execute the program
    Console.WriteLine(“MachineName={0}”, Environment.MachineName); // Name of the current machine
    Console.WriteLine(“NewLine={0}”, Environment.NewLine); // Newline character used by OS, \n for Unix, \n\r for Windows
    Console.WriteLine(“OSVersion={0}”, Environment.OSVersion); // OS Version
    Console.WriteLine(“ProcessorCount={0}”, Environment.ProcessorCount); // Number of CPU’s in the machine
    Console.WriteLine(“StackTrace={0}”, Environment.StackTrace); // Prints all functions called in order
    Console.WriteLine(“SystemDirectory={0}”, Environment.SystemDirectory); // Returns the “system” directory of the OS, not valid on Unix
    Console.WriteLine(“TickCount={0}”, Environment.TickCount); // Number of milliseconds since the system started
    Console.WriteLine(“UserDomainName={0}”, Environment.UserDomainName); // Windows domain, Machine name on Unix
    Console.WriteLine(“UserInteractive={0}”, Environment.UserInteractive); //
    Console.WriteLine(“UserName={0}”, Environment.UserName); // Current username
    Console.WriteLine(“Version={0}”, Environment.Version); // C# engine version
    Console.WriteLine(“WorkingSet={0}”, Environment.WorkingSet); // Memory allocated to the process

    // ExpandEnviromentalVariables expands any named variable between %%
    Console.WriteLine(“ExpandEnvironentVariables={0}”, Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(“This system has the following path: %PATH%”));

    String[] arguments = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs();
    Console.WriteLine(“CommandLineArgs={0}”, String.Join(“, “, arguments));

    String[] drives = Environment.GetLogicalDrives();
    Console.WriteLine(“GetLogicalDrives: {0}”, String.Join(“, “, drives));
    }
    }
    }