In the last couple of days or so I have spent some time reading Karl Seguin’s excellent and FREE to download ebook – Foundations of Programming which covers many topics from dependency injection to best practices for dealing with exceptions. The main topic that took my fancy was the Back to Basics: Memory section, here’s …
I spent a bit of time on Ayende’s blog today, finally catching up with a series of performance-related blog posts he made whilst working on the .Net profiler (the man’s a living legend, the quality AND quantity of his posts is without equal!) Whilst reading through the various posts, I came across an unfamiliar term …
When dealing with concurrency/threading issues in .Net, the normal approach is to use lock() to lock a dedicated sync object like this: This is an efficient, simple and well proven way to get thread-safety in .Net and is probably all you’ll ever need in your project. However, as this approach ensures only one thread can …
In Linq To Objects, there are two ways you can join two sequences together, using either Concat() or Union(), and as I was wondering how the two differs I came across this post: http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2009/03/04/choose-concat-over-union-if-possible.aspx The main thing to take away from this article is: “If you care about the duplicates, Union() is necessary. However, in …
Over the last couple of years, there have been many discussions/debates on DataSet vs Collections, and there was a very good article in MSDN magazine on just that: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/cc163751.aspx#S7 To add to the Dark Sides of DataSet, there is a little known feature/bug/annoyance in the DataTable.Select() method – every time you call the Select() method …
I did some performance optimization work a little while back, and one of the changes which yielded a significant result was when I migrated some server side components (which are CPU intensive and performs a large number of loops) from using ADO.NET DataSets to using POCOs (plain old CLR object). The looping was then done …
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