Tag: C#

Recursive Descent Parser for arithmetic expressions with real numbers

.NET, C#, Programming, Recursive Descent Parser, TDDSlobodan Pavkov5 Comments
In previous post we were building Recursive Descent Parser for Boolean expressions and in the post before that we were parsing simple arithmetic expressions (with only addition and subtraction). In this third, final post we will build more real world example – we will parse arithmetic expressions that include (besides addition and subtraction) multiplication and division. Note here that we also have to respect the priority of operations (multiplication and division are done before addition and subtraction) so our parser has to be “smart” enough to handle that. And just to make it more fun, this time we will also…

Introduction to Recursive Descent Parsers with C#

.NET, C#, Programming, Recursive Descent Parser, TDD, Unit TestingSlobodan Pavkov4 Comments
Parser? Aren’t parsers utterly boring? Well no, quite the opposite. Lately i have been solving some of the programming challenges on talentbuddy and bumped into task to create parser and solver for simple arithmetic expressions in string format, something like this: “(2+2)-(3-(6-5))-4”. On first thought this seems trivial, but only until the moment you start implementing it. If you are doing it the wrong way, for example by using regular expressions, you can bump into some interesting problems, and also develop a solution that works for most cases but then fails on edge cases etc. The proper way Fortunately there are…

Using await to build cool UI tutorials

.NET, Async, Await, C#, Mobile, Programming, WPFSlobodan Pavkov2 Comments
In the last post we discussed how we can build custom awaiters and showed simple example how to await for click on the Button instance. Maybe it was not obvious how we can expand that idea and create some useful application, so i decided to expand the whole concept in this post. We are going to build some more complex awaiters (for example TextBox awaiter that awaits for certain text to by typed into it) and use it together with the old Button click-awaiter to build the tutorial on how to use some imaginary app inside of the app itself.…

Awaiting for that Button click

.NET, Async, Await, C#, DotNetGotcha, Programming, WPFSlobodan Pavkov1 Comment
Why wait when we can await? I believe that most of C# developers know about the new language features for asynchronous programming with async and await keywords but how many of us are really exploiting them to full extent? Recently i was watching the excellent C# Language Internals course on PluralSight.com by Bart De Smet and came across very cool idea of using Await to wait for Button to be clicked – which pushed me to write this post and share it with everyone. By implementing a custom awaiter for Button (via extension methods) and hooking up to the Click handler…
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