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.

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!

dotNetDave Rocks The Tech Valley .NET User Group

The dotNetDave For Those About To Code: Worldwide Tour will be at the Tech Valley .NET User Group (TVUG) in Latham, NY on August 10, 2021.

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.

Reference Type & Structure Performance: Best Practices

General best practices for types that includes access modifiers, normal and static methods, expanded & Expression bodied methods and more!

Reference Type & Structure Performance: Disposable Types

One of the first things I do when analyzing code for a new contract is to fix all the IDisposable issues. None of the jobs I’ve started does this 100% correct or sometimes not at all. This must be done before performing memory analysis on running code.