October 2006 - Posts

• How do I send out simple debug messages to help with my debugging?

  Visual Studio offers tons of useful debugging features and allows you to step through your code line-by-line. However, there are times when you don’t want to step through your application, but want to make it output simple text strings with variable values, Read More... Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 11:19 AM by CSharpFAQ | 1 Comments Filed under: Debugger/Debugging

• How do I calculate a MD5 hash from a string?

  It is a common practice to store passwords in databases using a hash. MD5 (defined in RFC 1321 ) is a common hash algorithm, and using it from C# is easy. Here’s an implementation of a method that converts a string to an MD5 hash, which is a 32-character Read More... Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 11:15 AM by CSharpFAQ | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET Framework