As you know, this forum is available in the form of source codes and the sources are in plain C# programming language.
The forum app does not rely on any third-party libraries or dependencies and utilizes all the modern features of the C# 4.0 programming language. Including generics, extension methods and linq. The latter is used with the built-in very simple ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) to access the forum database.
Here's a sample code snippet from the C# sources:
//open the connection
using (DbConnection cn = DB.CreateOpenConnection())
{
//get typed "User" object from the DB using forum's simple ORM
var res = cn.ExecuteOrm<UserInfo>(
@"SELECT UserName, Email, ActivationCode
FROM ForumUsers WHERE UserID=? AND Disabled=?",
userId, true);
if (!res.Any()) return;
string username = res.First().UserName;
string code = res.First().ActivationCode;
string email = res.First().Email;
}
