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- DbFunctions.Like() to enable writing LINQ queries that translate to LIKE in SQL
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- Update error numbers for SQL Azure Execution Strategy
- Bug: Retrying queries or SQL commands fails with “The SqlParameter is already contained by another SqlParameterCollection”
- Bug: Evaluation of DbQuery.ToString() frequently times out in the debugger

In this article, we'll walk you through updating an existing ASP.NET Core 1.x project to ASP.NET Core 2.0. Migrating your application to ASP.NET Core 2.0 enables you to take advantage of many new features and performance improvements.

public static Task ForEachAsync<TSource>(IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource, CancellationToken, ValueTask> body)
public static Task ForEachAsync<TSource>(IEnumerable<TSource> source, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<TSource, CancellationToken, ValueTask> body)
public static Task ForEachAsync<TSource>(IEnumerable<TSource> source, ParallelOptions parallelOptions, Func<TSource, CancellationToken, ValueTask> body)
public static Task ForEachAsync<TSource>(IAsyncEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource, CancellationToken, ValueTask> body)
public static Task ForEachAsync<TSource>(IAsyncEnumerable<TSource> source, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Func<TSource, CancellationToken, ValueTask> body)
public static Task ForEachAsync<TSource>(IAsyncEnumerable<TSource> source, ParallelOptions parallelOptions, Func<TSource, CancellationToken, ValueTask> body)

customers.ForEach(c => SendEmailAsync(c));

foreach(var c in customers)
{
    SendEmailAsync(c); // the return task is ignored
}

customers.ForEach(async c => await SendEmailAsync(c));

foreach(var c in customers)
{
   await SendEmailAsync(c);
}

foreach(var o in orders)
{
    await ProcessOrderAsync(o);
}

var tasks = orders.Select(o => ProcessOrderAsync(o)).ToList();
await Task.WhenAll(tasks);

In this series I answer various .NET questions. Some of them are asked during interviews, some of them I see on the internet, some of them are completely made up. The goal is to provide short answer with links to references if needed. This is by no means a .NET tutorial or experts reference, this is just a bunch of useful answers to refresh your knowledge. 

using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Configuration; 


public class FtpHelper
{
public FtpHelper()
{
       //Default Value Set From Application 
         _hostname = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.GetValues("FtpAddress")[0]; 
        _username = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.GetValues("FtpUser")[0]; 
        _password = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.GetValues("FtpPass")[0];  
}
    
    #region "Properties"
    private string _hostname;
    /// <summary>
    /// Hostname
    /// </summary>
    /// <value></value>
    /// <remarks>Hostname can be in either the full URL format
    /// ftp://ftp.myhost.com or just ftp.myhost.com
    /// </remarks>
    public string Hostname
    {
        get
        {
            if (_hostname.StartsWith("ftp://"))
            {
                return _hostname;
            }
            else
            {
                return "ftp://" + _hostname;
            }
        }
        set
        {
            _hostname = value;
        }
    }
    private string _username;
    /// <summary>
    /// Username property
    /// </summary>
    /// <value></value>
    /// <remarks>Can be left blank, in which case 'anonymous' is returned</remarks>
    public string Username
    {
        get
        {
            return (_username == "" ? "anonymous" : _username);
        }
        set
        {
            _username = value;
        }
    }
    private string _password;
    public string Password
    {
        get
        {
            return _password;
        }
        set
        {
            _password = value;
        }
    }


    #endregion
}

using System.Net;
using System.IO;
 

public static bool Upload(string fileUrl)
        {
            if (File.Exists(fileUrl))
            {
                FtpHelper ftpClient = new FtpHelper();
                string ftpUrl = ftpClient.Hostname + System.IO.Path.GetFileName(fileUrl);


                FtpWebRequest ftp = (FtpWebRequest)FtpWebRequest.Create(ftpUrl);
                ftp.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(ftpClient.Username, ftpClient.Password);

                ftp.KeepAlive = true;
                ftp.UseBinary = true;
                ftp.Timeout = 3600000;
                ftp.KeepAlive = true;
                ftp.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;

                const int bufferLength = 102400;
                byte[] buffer = new byte[bufferLength];
                int readBytes = 0;

                //open file for reading
                using (FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(fileUrl))
                {
                    try
                    {
                        //open request to send
                        using (Stream rs = ftp.GetRequestStream())
                        {
                            do
                            {
                                readBytes = fs.Read(buffer, 0, bufferLength);
                                fs.Write(buffer, 0, readBytes);
                            } while (!(readBytes < bufferLength));
                            rs.Close();
                        }

                    }
                    catch (Exception)
                    {
                     //Optional Alert for Exeption To Application Layer
                       //throw (new ApplicationException("بارگذاری فایل با خطا  رو به رو شد"));
 
                    }
                    finally
                    {
                        //ensure file closed
                        //fs.Close();
                    }

                }

                ftp = null;
                return true;
            }
            return false;



        }

<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
                    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
                    xmlns:system="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib">
    <system:String x:Key="button1">Hello!</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button2">How Are You?</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button3">Are You OK?</system:String>
 
</ResourceDictionary>

<Application x:Class="BeRMOoDA.WPF.LocalizationSample.App"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml">
    <Application.Resources>
 
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="Culture_en-US.xaml"/>
            </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        </ResourceDictionary>
 
    </Application.Resources>
</Application>

<Button Content="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=button1}" />
<Button Content="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=button2}" />
<Button Content="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=button3}" />

<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
                    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
                    xmlns:system="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib">
    <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        <ResourceDictionary Source="Culture_fa-IR_Farsi.xaml"/>
    </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
    <system:String x:Key="button1">سلام!</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button2">حالت چطوره؟</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button3">خوبی؟</system:String>
</ResourceDictionary>

public class CultureAssemblyModel
    {
        //the text will be displayed to user as language name (like Farsi)
        public string DisplayText { get; set; }
        //name of .dll file (like Culture_fa-IR_Farsi.dll)
        public string Name { get; set; }
        //standar notation of this culture (like fa-IR)
        public string Culture { get; set; }
        //name of resource dictionary file inside the loaded .dll (like Culture_fa-IR.xaml)
        public string XamlFileName { get; set; }
    }

//will keep information about loaded assemblies
public List<CultureAssemblyModel> CultureAssemblies { get; set; }
 
//loads assmeblies in languages folder and adds their info to list
 void LoadCultureAssemblies()
 {
      //we should be sure that list is empty before adding info (do u want to add some cultures more than one? of course u dont!)
      CultureAssemblies.Clear();
      //creating a directory represents applications directory\languages
      DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) + "\\languages");
      //getting all .dll files in the language folder and its sub dirs. (who knows? maybe someone keeps each culture file in a seperate folder!)
      var assemblies = dir.GetFiles("*.dll", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
      //for each found .dll we will create a model and set its properties and then add to list  for (int i = 0; i < assemblies.Count(); i++)
      {

                string name = assemblies[i].Name;

                CultureAssemblyModel model = new CultureAssemblyModel() { DisplayText = name.Split('.', '_')[2], Culture = name.Split('.', '_')[1], Name = name  , XamlFileName =name.Substring(0, name.LastIndexOf(".")) + ".xaml" };
                CultureAssemblies.Add(model);
      }
 }

comboboxLanguages.ItemsSource = CultureAssemblies;

<ComboBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="10" VerticalAlignment="Top" MinWidth="100" Name="comboboxLanguages">
            <ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <Label Content="{Binding DisplayText}"/>
                </DataTemplate>
            </ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>

//loads selected culture
 public void LoadCulture(CultureAssemblyModel culture)
 {
     //creating a FileInfo object represents .dll file of selected cultur
     FileInfo assemblyFile = new FileInfo("languages\\" + culture.Name);
     //loading .dll into memory as a .net assembly
     var assembly = Assembly.LoadFile(assemblyFile.FullName);
     //getting .dll file name
     var assemblyName = assemblyFile.Name.Substring(0, assemblyFile.Name.LastIndexOf("."));
     //creating string represents structure of a pack uri (something like this: /{myassemblyname;component/myresourcefile.xaml}
     string packUri = string.Format(@"/{0};component/{1}", assemblyName, culture.XamlFileName);
     //creating a pack uri
     Uri uri = new Uri(packUri, UriKind.Relative);
     //now we have created a pack uri that represents a resource object in loaded assembly
     //and its time to load that as a resource dictionary (do u remember that we had resource dictionary in culture assemblies? don't u?)
     var dic = Application.LoadComponent(uri) as ResourceDictionary;
     dic.Source = uri;
     //here we will remove current merged dictionaries in our resource dictionary and add recently-loaded resource dictionary as e merged dictionary
     var mergedDics = this.Resources.MergedDictionaries;
     if (mergedDics.Count > 0)
          mergedDics.Clear();
     mergedDics.Add(dic);
 }

void comboboxLanguages_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
 {
     var selectedCulture = (CultureAssemblyModel)comboboxLanguages.SelectedItem;
     App app = Application.Current as App;
     app.LoadCulture(selectedCulture);
 }