Posts Tagged "csharp"
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Using the .NET HttpClient class more efficiently
On a recent piece of work, I was updating some code in our codebase which makes use of a HttpClient for fairly similar actions, repeatedly. During a code review, someone noted that I was repeatedly cr...
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Auto-backed properties in C#: a quick primer
I’ve been excited and curious about the fancy auto-backed properties of C# since I first got into the language about three years ago. I’ll admit that, though I’m not a language nerd, the improved ergo...
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The Limits of LINQ
This week, I decided to tackle a particularly nasty piece of code in our code base: a repository class built on top of DynamoDB, that was written before we had much understanding of how the DynamoDB...
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Loading Spatial Data into Azure SQL Part 3
Continuing on with my work in querying spatial data in Azure SQL, I got stuck on the creation of a spatial index, which has been pointed out as being essential to the performance of an application...
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Loading Spatial Data into Azure SQL Part 2
I left off my last post uploading the polygons to Azure SQL, which took just a few hours. My next step was to be able to retrieve the LGA (LGA name) from the database, given a set of coordinates. T...
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Loading Spatial Data Into SQL Azure Part 1
I'm currently working on a university project in which we have elected to use a client-server architecture with an Android app on the front end and a web API working as the backend server. This serv...