C#

Console.WriteLine("The maximum value of float is : " + float.MaxValue);
Console.WriteLine("The minimum value of float is : " + float.MinValue);

Console.WriteLine("The maximum value of float is : " + float.MaxValue.ToString("N"));
Console.WriteLine("The minimum value of float is : " + float.MinValue.ToString("N"));

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

namespace TestConsole2
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create an instance of StreamWriter to write text to a file.
            // The using statement also closes the StreamWriter.
 // Default path: C:\Documents and Settings\< windows user>\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\<Name of Solution>\<Name of project>\bin\<Debug || Release>
            using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter("Output.txt"))
            {
                // Add some text to the file.
                sw.Write("This is the ");
                sw.WriteLine("Float value types");
                sw.WriteLine("-------------------");
                sw.WriteLine("The maximum value of float is : " + float.MaxValue);
                sw.WriteLine("The minimum value of float is : " + float.MinValue);
                // Arbitrary objects can also be written to the file.
                sw.Write("The date is: ");
                sw.WriteLine(DateTime.Now);
            }
            //Source: MSDN
         
        }
    }
}

jon_80 wrote:

The author refers to the minimum value of float as "approximately 1.5 times 10 to the 45th power", the resultant value (1.e+46) seems to disagree with the value given by the MinValue method.

float x = 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001F;
Console.WriteLine("Smallest : " + x);

jon_80 wrote:

2. Does anyone have a table with c# data types, description and range values, pls?

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Error	1	The type or namespace name 'myType' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)	D:\Documents and Settings\IvanM\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\WindowsApplication4\WindowsApplication4\Form1.cs	24	18	WindowsApplication4<br />

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Assembly asm = Assembly.LoadFile(@"C:\MyDll.dll");<br />
Type myType = asm.GetType("WindowsApplication4.Class1");<br />
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Type ListType = typeof(List<>);<br />
Type ListOfMyType = ListType.MakeGenericType(myType);<br />

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object myObject = Activator.CreateInstance(ListOfMyType);<br />

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myObject.GetType().InvokeMember("Add", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, myObject, new object[] { myType1 } );<br />

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Method 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[[MojDll.Class1, MojDll, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]].Add' not found.<br />

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ListOfMyType.InvokeMember("Add", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, myObject, new object[] { myType1 } );<br />