How do you refer to the C# programming language in LaTeX? Simply typing C# doesn’t work because # is a special character in LaTeX. You could type C#. That works, but it looks a little odd. The number sign is…
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Stand-alone scientific code
Sometimes you need one or two scientific functions not included in your programming environment. For a number of possible reasons, you do not want to depend on an external library. For example, maybe you don’t want to take the time…
Porting Python to C#
When people start programming in Python, they often mention having to type less: no braces, no semicolons, fewer type declarations etc. The difference may be more obvious when you go in the other direction, moving from Python to another language.…
C# math gotchas
C# has three mathematical constants that look like constants in the C header file float.h. Two of these are not what you might expect. The constant double.MaxValue in C# looks like the constant DBL_MAX in C, and indeed it is.…
Root-finding software in C#
Code Project just posted my article Three Methods for Root-finding in C#. The article discusses the pros and cons of bisection, Newton’s method, and Brent’s method and gives C# implementations of each. Related posts: C# random number generation code Free…
C# random number generation code
This weekend Code Project posted an updated version of my article Simple Random Number Generation. The article comes with C# source code for generating random samples from the following distributions. Cauchy Chi square Exponential Inverse gamma Laplace (double exponential) Normal…
Visual Studio 2010 is a pig
Visual Studio 2010 has not made a good first impression. It took about a day to install. I was using the Visual Studio Ultimate Web Installer and much of the time was spent downloading bits. I’m sure it would have…
Solver Foundation optimization library
Microsoft’s Solver Foundation is a numerical optimization library capable of solving problems involving millions of variables and millions of constraints. When I listened Scott Hanselman interview Nathan Brixius from Microsoft’s Solver Foundation team, I expected Brixius to say that Solver…
Free C# book
Charles Petzold is a highly respected author in Windows programming circles. For years, his book was THE reference for Win32 API programming. I knew he had since written several books on .NET programming but I didn’t realize until I listened…
C# verbatim strings vs. PowerShell here-strings
C# verbatim strings and PowerShell here-strings have just enough in common to be confusing. The differences are summarized here. C# verbatim strings PowerShell here-strings May contain line breaks Must contain line breaks Only double quote variety Single and double quote varieties…
