You can add the service with PowerShell. New-Service and Get-service are available in PowerShell 5, for 'Remove-Service' PowerShell >= 6 required. Otherwise you can use 'sc.exe DELETE MyMegaServiceApplication'. You should execute it with as an administrator. Not any application you can start a service. As a .Net developer, I usually create .Net solutions, in this case you should create application based on 'worker service' template in VS 2022 or any other IDE.

I will write down the useful method. I used it several times and it works good. It's C# method to create a UNC directory recursively and return the path.

If you want to write an application which uses RabbitMQ, I advise you to use docker image of Rabbit. It's lightweight and can be easily executed.

Create a console app with .Net Framework 4.7.2 with Dapper and datasource in MSSQL Server or PostgreSQL.

If you create this ancient app, you should only add Dapper and NPGSQL packages from Nuget. The support of MS SQL Server is already built in. The scenario for .Net Framework is from real life, several applications still require this framework.

Once I tried to make the application to migrate a custom data source from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2019 on-premise. To make it easier, I decided to make to separate solutions – the first one to export the data from SharePoint 2010 from the list to JSON and attachments to local folder(CSOM for SharePoint 2010 sucks) and the utility to import data to SharePoint 2019 via REST.

Once again I decided to make a new task from LeetCode and finally my process had been stopped. I could not convert Char to Int. I even spent some time for research, but I could not find any solution. Then I open the documentation and started to read.

In my application I had rendered JSON data with AngularJS and I had to send it to a controller in my MVC application to render PDF file and to allow a user to save it. So, the task was dynamically to submit the request, render a file and allow user to save it.

StreamWriter has some options of usage. You can as add new text to an existing text in file, so and to clean existing text and add a new one.

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C# snippet below helps to read SQL data to List<T> generic collection without any extensions or frameworks only with SQL and LINQ.

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Junior developer created some tools which packed to zip-archive some rendered files. He used for this DotNetZip (Ionic.Zip) library. Everything worked fine until today. But today, when users users tried to open zip-file, they've got the error "CRC has failed, the file is corrupt".
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