Does How You Access Class Properties Make A Difference? One day I found myself writing methods for Forex Trading bots where numerous methods within the bot had to access framework classes with properties that were read only. I started… Continue Reading
Does Parameter Order Make A Difference? I remember reading once that frequently accessed method variables placed first within a method’s signature are accessed faster as they are allocated for available cpu registers. As I was refactoring C# code in… Continue Reading
C# Using Ints Vs Stringified-Ints This article details the benchmarks and performance showdown in C# using Ints Vs Stringified-Ints. Often enough C# programmers will find themselves using numbers in their string representation. That is, using “8” as opposed to… Continue Reading
C# ConvertTo Vs Parse This article details the benchmark and performance showdown: C# ConvertTo vs Parse methods. In any programming language, data type conversions are inevitably going to happen. C# programmers have quite a few tools up their sleeves thanks… Continue Reading
C#: Dictionary Vs ConcurrentDictionary In this article we are going to benchmark a C# Dictionary Vs ConcurrentDictionary while adding/updating key-value pairs. This test came about while I was upgrading multiple code blocks from using C# Dictionary objects to ConcurrentDictionary objects.… Continue Reading
C# TryParse Vs Try Catch This article details the C# benchmark showdown between TryParse Vs Try Catch performance. C# programmers are undoubtedly familiar with the multiple ways data can be parsed to verify good data while also handling bad data.… Continue Reading
C#: Fastest Way To Check Last Character of a String In this article we’ll benchmark in C#: Fastest Way To Check Last Character of a string. There are plenty of applications and systems out there which require the need to… Continue Reading
C#: Read lines from a text file in batches and process in parallel I have had numerous requests from readers if I could provide some sample C# code which will read lines from a text file in batches and… Continue Reading
C# Azure Blob Storage Manager Class Here is a C# Azure Blob Storage Manager Class which I hope you find useful as I’ve needed it often enough. It provides basic functionality for blob storage in the Azure cloud. Sample usage… Continue Reading
C#: For Vs ForEach Vs While In this article we’ll benchmark iterating over commonly used collections and data structures with the following loop constructs in C#: For Vs ForEach Vs While. A List of strings needs to be written to… Continue Reading