Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java String printf method can be confusing at first, but it greatly simplifies how you ...

I love the String object's Format method. It's an unusual application where I'm not using it to build messages. (Long ago and far away, I used to use it to assemble SQL statements.) Typical code looks ...

Developers (including you) benefit when you provide a string representation of your class. By implementing IFormattable, you can take control of this representation and provide some flexibility.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java printf function helps simplify the task of printing formatted output to the console, ...

The file I'm attempting to open is an XLSX file. According to everything I've read this is the correct connection string for an XLSX file. Interestingly, this connection string WILL successfully ...

This example creates a format and shows how to use ranges with character strings. value $skill 'a'-<'e','A'-<'E'='Test A' 'e'-<'m','E'-<'M'='Test B' 'm'-'z~','M'-'Z ...