One way of obtaining management data and operation related to the Windows operating system is to use the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes. WMI can be considered as a database while the classes are like tables in the database. Therefore WMI can be queried to obtain specific table/class information. To use WMI classes in .NET … Continue reading Working with WMI classes

In article String concatenation and int indirect cast it was shown how the ToString() can be used to improve the performance of a program by eliminating the need for the boxing concept. However, the ToString() can still hinder the performance especially when used multiple times to convert a data type or object into a string … Continue reading Using ToString() on the same item multiple times

When working with files it is typically to encounter the need to create a file path from two different strings. The basic way of doing this is to use a conditional statement and string concatenation. However, this is not recommended as it relies on system assumptions, like the directory separator character and that the paths … Continue reading Combining Directory Paths

In the previous section it was discovered that the ToString() method creates a new string. In this section the inner studies of ToString() are taken one step further in analyzing what implications the ToString() method has on string concatination. Test Scenario 3: Let’s modify the test in Test Scenario 1 in a way that this … Continue reading String concatenation and int indirect cast – Part 2