Category Archives: Talk Examples

Blog posts that have example code from talks, presentations or conference sessions.

Parallelisation Talk Example – Parallel.Invoke

Posted on Thursday, 21 April, 2011 by Colin Mackay

Parallel.Invoke is the most basic way to start many tasks as the same time. The method takes as many Action<…> based delegates as needed. The Task Parallel Library takes care of the actual scheduling, degree of parallelism etc. Parallel.Invoke itself … Continue reading →

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Parallelisation Talk Example – ConcurrentBag

Posted on Thursday, 21 April, 2011 by Colin Mackay

This example shows a ConcurrentBag being populated and it being accessed while another task is still populating the bag. The ConcurrentBag class can be found in the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace In this example, the ConcurrentBag is populated in task that is … Continue reading →

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Parallelisation Talk Examples – ConcurrentDictionary

Posted on Thursday, 21 April, 2011 by Colin Mackay

The example used in the talk was one I had already blogged about. The original blog entry the example was based upon is here: Parallelisation in .NET 4.0 – The ConcurrentDictionary. Code Example class Program { private static ConcurrentDictionary<string, int> … Continue reading →

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Parallelisation Talk Examples – Basic PLINQ

Posted on Thursday, 21 April, 2011 by Colin Mackay

These are some code examples from my introductory talk on Parallelisation showing the difference between a standard sequential LINQ query and its parallel equivalent. The main differences between this and the previous two examples (Parallel.For and Parallel.ForEach) is that LINQ … Continue reading →

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Parallelisation Talk Examples – Parallel.ForEach

Posted on Thursday, 21 April, 2011 by Colin Mackay

These are some code examples from my introductory talk on Parallelisation. Showing the difference between a standard sequential foreach loop and its parallel equivalent. Code example 1: Serial processing of a foreach loop class Program { private static Random rnd … Continue reading →

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Parallelisation Talk examples – Parallel.For

Posted on Thursday, 21 April, 2011 by Colin Mackay

This is some example code from my introductory talk on Parallelisation. Showing the difference between a standard sequential for loop and its parallel equivalent. Code example 1: Serial processing of a for loop class Program { private static Random rnd … Continue reading →

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Where’s My Data? An introduction to Spatial Queries in SQL Server 2008

Posted on Tuesday, 22 April, 2008 by Colin Mackay

The slide deck used for my presentations to the Scottish SQL Server UG on 13/Feb/2008, the North-East Scotland .NET User Group on 20/Feb/2008, VBUG Manchester on 24/July/2008, and SQL Bits III on 13/Sept/2008. There is also a set of demo … Continue reading →

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An introduction to mock objects

Posted on Saturday, 2 December, 2006 by Colin Mackay

Sometimes when you are unit testing you might get to a point where you say “That’s too difficult to unit test so I’m just going to leave it”. This is where mock objects come in. Mock objects are stand-in dummy … Continue reading →

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