One of the great thing about Nancy is that you can host it in pretty much everywhere, and that includes inside a console app! The documentations seems to be missing the self-hosting option however, but it’s easy and only takes a minute. First, create a console app and get the Nancy.Hosting.Self package from NuGet: Then …
Over the last couple of days I’ve been playing around with Nancy, one of a number of micro web frameworks now available for the .Net platform. You can read more about Nancy on their github readme page but in short it’s an ultra lightweight, easily extensible framework that lets you run a HTTP web server …
One of a new wave of buzzwords that have been made popular by the emerging breed of Ruby/Scala developers, low ceremony is usually used to describe web frameworks – if a framework is "low ceremony" then the amount of setup/configuration it requires is minimal and the central idea is that it will stay out of …
Note: don’t forget to check out the Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers. When working with the BinaryFormatter class frequently, one of the things you notice is that it is really damn inefficient… both in terms of speed as well as the payload (the size of the serialized …
Performance Test – BinaryFormatter vs Protobuf-Net Read More »
Since I do a fair bit of performance tests on random things that pique my interest, it’s only natural that I should make the task of carrying out these tests easier for myself, so over the weekend I put together a simple, no frills framework to do just that! The SimpleSpeedTester project is intended to …
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NOTE: For an updated set of benchmarks, see the Benchmarks page. For those of you who have worked with JSON data in .Net you should be familiar with the DataContractJsonSerializer class and the JavaScriptSerializer class already. Both allow you to serialize/deserialize an object to and from a piece of string in JSON format, though there …
Cranked these out last night, hope you find it useful too 1: public static class SerializationExtensions 2: { 3: private static readonly ConcurrentDictionary<Type, XmlSerializer> XmlSerializers = 4: new ConcurrentDictionary<Type, XmlSerializer>(); 5: 6: private static readonly ConcurrentDictionary<Type, DataContractJsonSerializer> JsonSerializers = 7: new ConcurrentDictionary<Type, DataContractJsonSerializer>(); 8: 9: private static readonly JavaScriptSerializer JavaScriptSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer(); 10: 11: …
Extension Methods – Serialize/Deserialize as Json/XML Read More »
To get the default value of a type, you’ve probably used the default keyword in .Net already: 1: var defaultInt = default(int); // 0 2: var defaultObj = default(string); // null However, the use of the default keyword requires a type name to be specified at compile time, so you won’t be able to use …
.Net Tips – Getting the default value of a type outside of generics Read More »
By default the GAC folder in Windows is located at %windir%\assembly, you can find all the registered DLLs in that folder. Whilst you can open it in windows explorer and view it like any other folder, it is a somewhat special and allows you to have different versions of the same DLL registered in the …
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