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Hi all,
I'm running VS 2008 with the latest Oxygene language module from
RemObjects allowing me to write .NET 3.5 apps in Pascal. It's a great
system especially when coming from 15 years of Delphi! <g> But, and I'm
told by others this is a problems everyone is having no matter what
language is being used, I have ONE single problem that I despartly need
to find a solution to!
I've been using "Reflector" to browse through the NET libraries and
there are literally thousands of entries under a variety of cryptic
headings, and it seems when I need to find a method, procedure,
function, property, etc for use in my code, finding it takes longer than
writing the entire application!
For example, right now I'm looking for CRC functions that I can use as
part of my new security protocols. In Win32 I used a Turbopower library
called Systools which had a function, "CrC32ofFile(FFile : String):
String;". Give it a path and filename and it returned a String of
numbers that could then be encrypted and used to validate that a file's
code hadn't been tampered with by re-checking the same file using the
same function and comparing the result with the decrypted stored result.
But how do I find something like this in NET? And the same question
applies to all kinds of needs, from simple ones like finding a way to
get the Drive Windows is installed under to getting info like the
current logged on Username, or aq DirectoryExixts function!
It seems there has to be a way of simplifying the finding of these
basic needs rather than having to go entry to entry with Reflector which
can take literally days!
Is there any kind of documentation or index I can used to help narrow
down my searches? Please if anyone has any ideas of how to spend more
time coding then looking for the methods and such to use in my code, I
will be forever gratful!
I'm running VS 2008 with the latest Oxygene language module from
RemObjects allowing me to write .NET 3.5 apps in Pascal. It's a great
system especially when coming from 15 years of Delphi! <g> But, and I'm
told by others this is a problems everyone is having no matter what
language is being used, I have ONE single problem that I despartly need
to find a solution to!
I've been using "Reflector" to browse through the NET libraries and
there are literally thousands of entries under a variety of cryptic
headings, and it seems when I need to find a method, procedure,
function, property, etc for use in my code, finding it takes longer than
writing the entire application!
For example, right now I'm looking for CRC functions that I can use as
part of my new security protocols. In Win32 I used a Turbopower library
called Systools which had a function, "CrC32ofFile(FFile : String):
String;". Give it a path and filename and it returned a String of
numbers that could then be encrypted and used to validate that a file's
code hadn't been tampered with by re-checking the same file using the
same function and comparing the result with the decrypted stored result.
But how do I find something like this in NET? And the same question
applies to all kinds of needs, from simple ones like finding a way to
get the Drive Windows is installed under to getting info like the
current logged on Username, or aq DirectoryExixts function!
It seems there has to be a way of simplifying the finding of these
basic needs rather than having to go entry to entry with Reflector which
can take literally days!
Is there any kind of documentation or index I can used to help narrow
down my searches? Please if anyone has any ideas of how to spend more
time coding then looking for the methods and such to use in my code, I
will be forever gratful!