Category: C#

Sometimes I need to copy a folder structure from one directory to another. For example, for my business I have directories representing years. Inside those directories I have standard folders for payroll, schedules, accounting, and others. With the new year, I needed to duplicate that folder structure. Any normal person would simply create the half […]

I do a lot of technical editing. When a project editor sends me files, Windows marks them as from an “untrusted” source. Then when I try to open the files in Word, it warns me and asks if I want to open the file anyway. This is kind of like taking candy from people. In […]

A palindrome date is a date that, in numeric format, reads the same forward and backward. For example, 12/1/21. To find the most dates, you can consider any formats including two-digit days and four-digit years, and you can ignore the separator characters. For example, 12/02/2021 is a palindrome because 12022021 is the same forward and […]

This example extends the example Use regular expressions to rename files within a date range and that match a pattern in C# to let you rename files that match a pattern and that were modified within a date range. See the previous example for most of the details. This post describes the changes from that […]

Sometimes you might want to copy a C# project so you can save the current version or so you can modify it for another purpose. Unfortunately, when you copy a C# project, the copied program does not automatically update the project’s name. For example, you could have the howto_copy_project project in the directory my_new_project. The […]