Have you ever wondered what Base64 is? How it works? Why you need it? Have you ever wanted to write your own Base64 encoder? Well, my friend, you are in luck because that’s what we’re talking about today. To get started… What is Base64? Base64 is a common
Back in my previous post, Converting an int to a binary string [http://davidzych.com/2013/12/06/converting-an-int-to-a-binary-string-in-c/], we looked at how to write out the bits of an int without using the existing Convert.ToString [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/14kwkz77%28v=vs.110%29.aspx] method
The .NET Framework has a built in overload of Convert.ToString [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/14kwkz77%28v=vs.110%29.aspx] which takes 2 parameters: the int you want to convert and an int of the base you want to convert to. Utilizing this with base 2, you
To get the string representation of a variable, in this case we’ll use int, there is no implicit conversion from int to string so you can call the ToString method: string s = myInt; //INVALID!! string s = myInt.ToString(); // Valid! When concatenating with another string, though, you don’t have
A little while back, Google released an update to Gmail that included a new tabbed interface for your inbox. Google decided that [http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-new-inbox-that-puts-you-back-in.html] sometimes it feels like our inboxes are controlling us, rather than the other way around and they set out to