I don't understand the meaning of "258EAFA5-E914-47DA-95CA-C5AB0DC85B11" in RFC 6455. Why does the server need this magic string? And why does the WebSocket protocol need this mechanism? ...

I have a background in desktop software development and am getting started with learning ASP.NET MVC. In my default HomeController I have the Index action which has code that looks like this: if ...

I frequently write C# code that has to use magic strings to express property names. Everyone knows the problems with magic strings. They are very difficult to refactor, they have no compile time ch...

I have the following problem: I have a set of engines which automaticly (listening to events) controls my model. The following picture shows in general the class diagram: Now I have a client whic...

I am writing a service to take a collection of objects of a particular type and output its primitive, string, and DateTime types to a string in CSV Format. I have both of the below statements worki...

In code at work, we have many uses of magic strings like the following code snippet: if (user.HasRight("Profile.View")) {...} So there are many places where we pass a string as a parameter to se...

My WPF project will be organised like this : Screens Group1 Screen1 View.xaml ViewModel.cs Group2 Screen2 View.xaml ViewModel.cs To show the Screen1 from the Screen2 I'll use something l...

I'm sure I have seen this syntax <%= Url.Action((MyController c) => c.MyMethod("a")) %> or something like it as a way to generate action URLs in ASP.net MVCs without magic strings. Howe...