Test Link

Click me http://www.nbnco.com.au/connect-home-or-business/information-for-business.htm

C# 4.0 Dynamic and Expando

The most exciting C# 4.0 feature for me is the dynamic.
It significantly lowered the cost to create more fluent and beautiful API.



Below is the slide from my lightning talk at Sydney ALT.NET June meeting.

http://www.slideshare.net/wiryadi/c-40-dynamic

The source code for CoolSQL will be available on GitHub

http://github.com/wiryadi/DynamicSQL

Fluent Spring is Alive

Fluent Spring project is alive. It is hosted at google code.
It is still very rough.

The project delivers DSL to configure Spring.NET in C#, no XML required.

Check it out at http://code.google.com/p/fluent-spring

Spring.NET fluent configuration

Mission

I like Spring.NET framework. But I am not a fan of xml configuration.

Spring.NET has programmatic configuration API. Refer to Mark Pollack's blog
However, the api is awkward to work with.

Plan

I like the wayAutofac's fluent configuration.
I plan to create a helper class to provide fluent configuration for Spring.NET a'la Autofac.

Benchmarking SqlBulkCopy

Bulk uploading into SQL Server programmatically has always been slow and tedious exercise.
Fortunately Microsoft has included SqlBulkCopy in the SqlClient for ADO.NET 2.0

In my testing. I loaded Australia's PostCode list from csv file, consisting of 16,789 rows.
I compared SqlAdapter.Fill(), SqlAdapterFill() + Setting the UpdateBatchSize property, and finally I used SqlBulkCopy.

First I read the csv file into in memory DataTable. For this purpose I read all rows in one go. In real live application, we would need to page the operation.

Then I push the DataTable into SqlServer 2005 table using 3 different methods.

1. SqlAdapter.Fill
2. SqlAdapter.Fill + Setting the UpdateBatchSize property = 500
   
3. SqlBulkCopy

Option 1 took 11,365 ms
Option 2 took 9,636 ms
and .....
Option 3 took 568 ms

Wow,.....
I suspect that option 1 and option 2 difference would be more significant if the SQL Server is located accross network. In this test I use local SQL Server.

To do SqlBulkCopy is surprisingly simple:
You need only to specify the connection string, the datatable and the name of the destination table.
string connectionString = "....";
DataTable csvTable = PopulateTable();
SqlBulkCopy bcp = new SqlBulkCopy(connectionString );
bcp.DestinationTableName = "PostCodes";
bcp.WriteToServer(csvTable);

Here are snippet of the code from my Benchmark Harness, which is a winforms application

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