String Performance: Checking For an Empty String

This article discusses the proper way to check for empty strings in C#.

Collection Performance: Sort() with CompareTo()

Let’s discuss for() and foreach() under load to establish a baseline. As you can see below, I used the same code in the previous chapter and added Task.Delay() to simulate a CPU load.

Collection Performance: Creating Collections with Capacity & AddRange()

Using List is perfectly fine when creating a collection when the number of items is not known beforehand. If the number of items is known, or even a close estimate, it could be more performant setting the collection capacity as shown in this article.

Performance: Code It Any Way You Want!

Back when .NET was first released in 2002, generally, there was only one way to code things. But now that we have the .NET Framework (Clr), .NET Core, and .NET, there can be many ways to code the same thing. The results in this article will focus on showing the different ways where there is very little difference in .NET 5.

dotNetDave Rocks The GLUGnet User Group

The dotNetDave For Those About To Code: Worldwide Tour will be at the GLUGnet User Group in Okemos, MI on August 19th at 6 PM EDT. I hope you will join me at this meeting. This meeting will be virtual, but I wish it was in person. My session will be followed by a Q&A where you can ask me anything!

Not “Super” Code with Over 7,000 Violations

I have been analyzing code for issues for a very long time. In this article, I will share what I found at a recent contract I was working on. I have analyzed some bad solutions in my career, and this is hands down one of the worse I have done in recent memory. I will show you just some of the over 7K violations. The biggest issue with this solution, which is in production, is the very poor architecture it has. Honestly, I do not know if there was any architecture for these 7 projects.

Serializing Objects: JSON Serialization

The most popular serialization done these days is to and from the JSON format due to it being less verbose than XML and therefor more performant. This article shows how to get the best performance when serializing objects to JSON.

Collection Performance Under Load: for() and foreach()

Let’s discuss for() and foreach() under load to establish a baseline. As you can see below, I used the same code in the previous chapter and added Task.Delay() to simulate a CPU load.

String Performance: String Comparison

This article will show performance results for using ToLower(), ToUpper(), ==, and Equals().

Collection Performance: Looping Over a Collection

There are four main ways to loop through a collection by using for(), foreach(), do() and while(). Let’s see which one of these methods are the most performant.