Reference Type & Structure Performance: Normal vs Static Methods

Most of the code analysis tools, including tools from Microsoft, recommends creating static methods if possible, stating performance as one of the reasons. But are static methods more performant than normal non-static methods? This articles shows your which is more performant!

String Performance: Checking for a Substring

There are three main methods to check for a string, within a string. Those methods, from String, are: Contains(), StartsWith(), and EndsWith(). This article shows the performance differences between these methods.

String Performance: Encoding and Decoding Strings

Encoding and decoding strings to and from a byte[] is used a lot in programming. Performance results are for using The formatting options are ASCII, Unicode, UTF8, and UTF32.

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Guest: Scott Hunter

Join me live on Saturday, November 13th, 2021 at 10:00 PST on C# Corner Live for show #42 where I will be interviewing for the second time Scott Hunter, Director Program Management .NET.  Learn the latest about .NET 6 from the person in charge of it! 

String Performance: Combining Strings with the StringBuilder

When concatenating many strings, especially in a loop, using the StringBuilder class is usually more performant and uses less memory.

String Performance: Concatenating Strings

This article shows the performance difference when combining two strings using +, Concat(), and Join().

Internationalization and Localization: Overview

These articles will show when you need to use globalization, even when the performance might not be the best. Believe me, you will thank me later. I typically do not use globalization patterns for application logging.

String Performance: Formatting

This article discusses the performance differences using string.Format() and interpolation.

Evil Software Of The Month

There is pleanty of bad software out there, stealing your data and much more. I've decided to give awards out to software that I call "evil". I feel this software should not be on the market or needs major changes to be safe and secure for its users.

Collection Performance: Creating Collections with Capacity & AddRange()

This article shows the benchmark results for adding items to a List using AddRange() and for().