dotNetDave Rocks the C# Corner Conference 2022

The For Those About to Code: Worldwide Tour 2022 will land in Delhi, India on October 14th - 15th at the C# Corner Conference 2022!

Rock Your Code :Coding Standards for Microsoft .NET – 7th Edition

I'm excited to announce the 7th edition of my coding standards book for Microsoft .NET! This book is a compilation of common Microsoft .NET coding standards in use today. In the past, for languages like Visual Basic, Microsoft published coding standards in a single document that developers could follow or use as a basis to …

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – 2nd Anniversary Show

Join me live for the 2nd-anniversary show on Saturday, October 1st, 2022 at 10:00 PST on C# Corner Live, show #67! Join us as we geek out and talk all things programming and the show of course.

Collection Performance: Processing Collections with Parallel.For() and Parallel.ForEach()

Since .NET 4.0, under the System.Threading.Tasks namespace, processing of collections can be sped up by using Parallel.For() and Parallel.ForEach(). These methods operate with thread-local data that runs in parallel. Both are easy to use and come with different options. This article shows you how to use these methods along with benchmark results.

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Special Guest: Jason Alba

Join me live on Saturday, September 124h, 2022 at 10:00 PST on C# Corner for show #66 where my guest will be Jason Alba, Pluralsight Author.

Speeding Up the StringBuilder Using an ObjectPool

If you weren’t aware, Microsoft .NET has a type called the ObjectPool that can be used to speed up performance since objects are pooled, instead of creating a new one each time it’s needed. In this article, I will show you how to use it with the StringBuilder.

Collection Performance: Using Immutable Sorted Collections

There are two immutable sorted collections, and they are ImmutableSortedDictionary and ImmutableSortedSet. This article shows which is more performant.

Collection Performance: Sorting With LINQ

There are several ways to sort a collection in .NET and one of them is by using LINQ. Two main extension methods are part of LINQ that can be used to easily sort collections.

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Special Guest: James Montemagno

Join me live on Saturday, September 17th, 2022 at 10:00 PST on C# Corner for show #65 where my guest will be James Montemagno, Program Manager – Developer Community, Microsoft.

Coding Faster with dotNetTips.com Spargine 6: August 2022 Release

I am pleased to announce the new release (v2022.6.8.9) of Spargine on August 1st, 2022, my open-source projects, and NuGet packages for .NET 6. I have added new classes, methods, benchmarks, and unit tests! I use these in all the projects I work on including many that are in production! I hope you will check them out and let me know what you would like to see added.

DotNetDave Rocks On .NET Live

For the first time, I will be on the live show On .NET Live, on August 22nd, 2022 at 9 am PST. I'm so excited to chat about two of my favorite subjects, code quality, and code performance! This is going to be fun.