This is a (non-comprehensive) guide for C# and .NET developers that are completely new to the Rust programming language. Some concepts and constructs translate fairly well between C#/.NET and Rust, but which may be expressed differently, whereas others are a radical departure, like memory management. This guide provides a brief comparison and mapping of those constructs and concepts with concise examples.
In this second e-book on Java, Christopher Rose takes readers through some of the more advanced features of the language. Java Succinctly Part 2explores powerful and practical features of Java, such as multithreading, building GUI applications, and 2-D graphics and game programming. Then learn techniques for using these mechanisms in coherent projects by building a calculator app and a simple game with the author.
.NET 4.7.2 is for streaming data into memory between 2% (Unsafe Parse x86), 7% (Unsafe Parse x64) and 40% (Span Parse x64) slower than .NET Core. Especially the 40% speed drop for Span based Apis due to the lack of JIT support by the .NET Runtime is unfortunate.
fastJSON is about 2x faster than Json.net in both serialize and deserialize
NetVips is a wrapper for the libvips image processing library. It's a bit like Magick.NET, but typically 8x faster. It's API-stable, supports around 300 image-processing operations, and a good range of image formats is supported.
NuGet package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/NetVips
There's a benchmark here: https://github.com/kleisauke/net-vips/tree/master/tests/NetVips.Benchmarks
Formatted docs, including a tutorial and full API: https://kleisauke.github.io/net-vips/
Blog post: https://jcupitt.github.io/libvips/2018/04/10/libvips-for-dot-net.html
NHibernate 4.0 GA has been released. It comes with .NET 4.0 support, moving away from the Iesi.Collections library, and also supports some SQL Server 2012 features such as sequences and Query Paging.
Advanced C# Programming Course
⭐️ Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Part 1 - Introduction
⌨️ (0:01:08) Part 2 - Overview of the Advanced C# Course
⌨️ (0:20:46) Part 3 - The Significants of the Release of .NET 5
⌨️ (0:33:17) Part 4 - Delegates - Introduction
⌨️ (0:47:47) Part 5 - Delegates - Create a Code Example
⌨️ (1:51:45) Part 6 - Delegates - Understanding Covariance and Contravariance
⌨️ (2:04:19) Part 7 - Delegates - Fund, Action and Predicate
⌨️ (2:24:26) Part 8 - Delegates - Asynchronous Method Calls
⌨️ (2:39:24) Part 9 - Events - Introduction
⌨️ (2:55:50) Part 10 - Events - Add/Remove Accessors
⌨️ (2:22:44) Part 11 - Events - User Actions & UWP
⌨️ (3:52:23) Part 12 - Events - The Observer Design Pattern
⌨️ (5:12:33) Part 13 - Generics - Introduction
⌨️ (5:27:30) Part 14 - Generics - Understanding Constraints
⌨️ (5:53:42) Part 15 - Generics - Generic Delegates and Events
⌨️ (6:34:56) Part 16 - Generics - The Factory Design Pattern
⌨️ (6:56:23) Part 17 - Async / Await Task - Introduction
⌨️ (7:35:36) Part 18 - Async / Await Task - Task.Run()
⌨️ (8:04:34) Part 19 - Async / Await Task - Best Practices
⌨️ (8:45:23) Part 20 - Async / Await Task - Cancelling Asynchronous Operations
⌨️ (9:13:47) Part 21 - LINQ - Introduction
⌨️ (9:50:14) Part 22 - LINQ - Queries
⌨️ (10:29:57) Part 23 - LINQ - Operators
⌨️ (11:16:51) Part 24 - LINQ - More Operators and Summary
⌨️ (12:18:46) Part 25 - C# Attributes
⌨️ (13:33:13) Part 26 - C# Reflection
⌨️ (14:34:53) Part 27 - .NET Framework and .NET Core
⌨️ (14:39:06) Part 28 - .NET 6
⌨️ (14:50:52) Part 29 - .NET 7
Great news... based on benchmark tests from my code performance book, when it comes to sorting collections, overall, .NET 5 is 35% faster than .NET Core! So important for apps.
Always Encrypted is a new feature in SQL Server 2016, which encrypts the data both at rest *and* in motion (and keeps it encrypted in memory). So this protects the data from rogue administrators, backup thieves, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Unlike TDE, as well, Always Encrypted allows you to encrypt only certain columns, rather than the entire database.
