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

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

Most programming languages provide the indirect conversions from numeric datatypes to string. So what difference it makes by calling the ToString() method when appending non-string datatypes to a string. This article is divided into 2 parts. The first part will show how the ToString() is interpreted by the CLR when it is called on an … Continue reading String concatenation and int indirect cast