As I mentioned in this post, I spent a bunch of time looking for a command line utility that would wait until a specific process has completed.  I was dumbfounded that I couldn’t find one, so I set out to write one.  I chose C# because all the tools are available.  Here is the usage [...]

I needed to build wildcard support into a C# app I am building.  The user needs to be able to enter a string with wildcards that represent SQL table names.  It’s pretty handy that the .NET Framework includes a regular expression parser in the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace.  However I couldn’t find a simple wildcard parser anywhere [...]