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  TimeSpan in C# The struct TimeSpan in C# represents a time interval that is difference between two times measured in number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds. The TimeSpan is used to compare two C# DateTime objects to find the difference between two dates.   Creating TimeSpan   TimeSpan struct has the following overloaded forms:   The following code snippet crates a TimeSpan from days, hours, and minutes. The common method of creating a TimeSpan is finding the difference between two DateTime objects, The following code snippet is example of getting the interval between two DateTime objects. TimeSpan Properties   C# TimeSpan class properties are Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Milliseconds, and Ticks that returns days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds in a TimeSpan object. The TotalDays, TotalHours, TotalMinutes, TotalSeconds, and TotalMilliseconds properies return the totals of them on an object.   The following code snippet...

  Record in C# Introduction With the release of C# 9, Microsoft introduced records. The record keyword gives a reference type new superpowers like immutability declared with positional records (or by using init-only properties), equality comparisons that mimic value types, and with-expressions that allows you to create a new record instance with the same property values, the properties you need to change. This drastically simplifies the process to copy objects.   The release of C# 10 brings records structs. They’ll carry a lot of the advantages of C# 9 records (which are reference types, like classes), but there are differences with structs because, structs are different from classes! In this article, we will see what a record struct is, and why a record class doesn’t behave like a record struct. Syntax First of all, Microsoft has made an improvement to record classes. With C# 9, to declare a record you replaced the “class” keyword with “record.” To avoid confusion...

  Yield Return in C# Made easy The CSharpNaija bring yet another important keyword in C# that is, yield return type. In the article below we will learn some programming techniques that revolve around C# yield return keywords. What MSDN has about Yield "The yield keyword signals to the compiler that the method in which it appears is an iterator block. The compiler generates a class to implement the behavior that is expressed in the iterator block. In the iterator block, the yield keyword is used together with the return keyword to provide a value to the enumerator object. This is the value that is returned, for example, in each loop of a foreach statement. The yield keyword is also used with break to signal the end of iteration." Operation of yield When combined with the return mechanism allowing creation, the function returns a value that handles certain information in the loop, and puts an end to certain conditions before it. This is contrary to the case of a norm...

  Encryption in C# Continue From our previous article Encryption in C# , e ncryption  is the process of translating plain text data (plaintext) into something that appears to be random and meaningless (ciphertext). It is used to transform a data into some un-readable form so that authenticated person only can read/access the data. It requires some secret information to transform the plain text to cipher text; it is usually referred as key. Decryption  is the process of converting ciphertext back to plaintext. To encrypt more than a small amount of data, symmetric encryption is used. There are many modern cryptographic methods used for  encryption and decryption  and it is classified in to  two classes  of key based algorithms. 1.        Symmetric Algorithm o     Same key is used for both Encryption and Decryption. The key will be kept as secret. o     Symmetric Ciphers is divided into S...