C# Parallelism: Executing Methods in Parallel in .NET 3.5
To fully take advantage of multi-core processors and to speed up response times, developers have to embrace parallel design patterns. Most of the code we write today is in serial; we execute one...
View ArticleLINQ: Select an object, but change some properties without creating a new object
Q: Using LINQ, if I wanted to perform some query and return the object from the query, but change only some of the properties in that object, how would I do this without creating a new object and...
View ArticleParallel ForEach Loop in C# 3.5
You can take advantage of multi-core processors and execute foreach loops in parallel. This works especially well when getting multiple chunks of data from external data sources such as a database,...
View ArticleParse the Domain from a URL String with a C# Extension Method
Many times I’ll need to parse the domain name, including the http[s]:// from a URL. Yet there’s no straightforward way to get it using the Uri class. This is especially useful when writing custom...
View ArticleTruncate HTML String C# Extension Method
My client, a super-huge pharmaceutical company, gave me a particularly good challenge: take a string of HTML and truncate it to a maximum amount of characters, keeping only whole words and all markup....
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