Visual Studio Online Test

I have tested C# compilation under VS Online.

This kind of paid products is not for me. As a developer, I build on a local machine and I want to be offline and not always connected. More, I don’t want to pay for and IDE and a free compiler.

My favorite tasks for customers

You have an IT solution with 4.000.000 lines of code. You want an audit ? What need to be rewritten, cut, reorganized. Want some ideas ? I can give you ideas with one hour !

You want to migrate your legacy apps into a modern Microsoft solution ?

You want to put some deprecated stuff on Docker, reorganize some others stuff ?

You need to look at a large amount of various source code ? You are lost with your source code, I can help !

You have old Microsoft technologies, ASP.NET Forms, various ASP.NEt MVC appz, WinForms or WPF APps, C++ Win32 or MFC Appz and you want to stay on the edge ? Call me !

Articles for June 2019 in Programmez

For a NET Core 3 Folder, I have written two articles:

LMDBNet NuGet package is available

LMDBNet is aviailable : https://www.nuget.org/packages/LMDBNet/1.1.0

The package contains the relase and debug version of LMDBNet.dll NET bindings with LMDBWindowsDll64.dll and LMDBWindowsDllD64.dll, the migrated Linux lib ported on Windows as a standard DLL.

VCREDIST is not inside the package.

The NET Azure Rangers Technical Community

I am proud to lead the community of NET Azure Rangers. This month, in french magazine Programmez for April 2019 issue, we have written 3 artciles.

Article for Programmez – October 2018 – Linux C++ Multithreading

My article is available in kiosk this month.

LMDBServiceNet coded in C# .NET

On Monday 3, I will make a demo in my company about Docker/Azure and I have decided to make a demo about C# .NET stuff because few people are interested in C++… So I have rewritten my service in C#. It was not very difficult:

• Web Server provided by CPP Rest SDK is migrated with System.Net.Http
• LMDBWindows64.dll is wrapped by LMDBNet.dll with C# bindings
• C++ syntax is the same as C# syntax so all the code rebuild ok at 90%

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using LMDBNet;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace LMDBServiceNet
{
    class WebServer
    {
        HttpListener _listener;
        LMDBWrapper _wrapper;

        public WebServer(string uriPrefix)
        {
            _listener = new HttpListener();
            _listener.Prefixes.Add(uriPrefix);

            _wrapper = new LMDBWrapper();
            _wrapper.Init("cache_db");
        }
        public async void Start()
        {
            _listener.Start();
            while (true)
                try
                {
                    var context = await _listener.GetContextAsync();
                    Task.Run(() => ProcessRequestAsync(context));
                }
                catch (HttpListenerException) { break; } // Listener stopped.
                catch (InvalidOperationException) { break; } // Listener stopped.
        }
        public void Stop() { _listener.Stop(); }

        async void ProcessRequestAsync(HttpListenerContext context)
        {
            try
            {
                string request = Path.GetFileName(context.Request.RawUrl);
                string str = String.Format("you asked for: {0}", request);
                //Console.WriteLine(str);

                Dictionary<string, string> parameters = ExtractParameters(context);

                if (parameters.Count == 0)
                {
                    await WriteResponse(context, String.Empty, HttpStatusCode.OK);
                    return;
                }

                string verb;
                if ( parameters.TryGetValue("request", out verb) == false )
                {
                    await WriteResponse(context, String.Empty, HttpStatusCode.OK);
                    return;
                }

                if (context.Request.HttpMethod == "GET")
                {
                    if (verb == Constants.VerbPing)
                    {
                        await RequestVerbPing(context);
                        return;
                    }
                    else if (verb == Constants.VerbUsage)
                    {
                        await RequestUsage(context);
                        return;
                    }
                    else if (verb == Constants.VerbGetData)
                    {
                        await RequestVerbGetData(context, parameters);
                        return;
                    }
                    else if (verb == Constants.VerbSetData)
                    {
                        await RequestVerbSetData(context, parameters);
                        return;
                    }
                }

                await WriteResponse(context, String.Empty, HttpStatusCode.OK);
            }
            catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine("Request error: " + ex); }
        }

        private Dictionary<string, string> ExtractParameters(HttpListenerContext context)
        {
            string request = Path.GetFileName(context.Request.RawUrl);
            string str = String.Format("Request: {0}", request);
            //Console.WriteLine(str);

            //http://192.168.175.241:7001/MyServer/LMDB/?request=set-data&key=toto0&value=toto1&name=cache2

            Dictionary<string, string> parameters = new Dictionary<string, string>();

            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(request))
                return parameters;

            var strings = request.Split('&');

            if (strings == null)
                return parameters;

            if (strings.Length >= 1)
            {
                strings[0] = strings[0].Remove(0, 1);
            }
            else
            {
                return parameters;
            }

            foreach (string s in strings)
            {
                //Console.WriteLine(s);
                var data = s.Split('=');
                if( data.Length == 2)
                {
                    string values = String.Format("{0}:{1}", data[0], data[1]);
                    //Console.WriteLine(values);

                    parameters.Add(data[0], data[1]);

                }
            }

            return parameters;

        }

        private async Task WriteResponse(HttpListenerContext context, string message, HttpStatusCode code)
        {
            Logger.LogInfo(message);

            var enc = Encoding.UTF8;
            byte[] msg = enc.GetBytes(message);

            context.Response.StatusCode = (int)code;

            context.Response.ContentLength64 = msg.Length;
            using (Stream s = context.Response.OutputStream)
                await s.WriteAsync(msg, 0, msg.Length);
        }

        private async Task RequestUsage(HttpListenerContext context)
        {

            DataUsage usage = new DataUsage();
            usage.company = "NEOS-SDI";
            usage.developer = "Christophe Pichaud";
            usage.version = "August 2008 BETA 0.3 .NET C#";

            string str = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(usage);

            await WriteResponse(context, str, HttpStatusCode.OK);
        }

        private async Task RequestVerbPing(HttpListenerContext context)
        {
            DataPing ping = new DataPing();
            ping.ip = "localhost";
            ping.port = Constants.MasterNodePort;
            ping.server = Environment.MachineName;

            string str = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(ping);

            await WriteResponse(context, str, HttpStatusCode.OK);
        }

        private async Task RequestVerbSetData(HttpListenerContext context, Dictionary<string, string> parameters)
        {
            string key;
            string value;

            if (parameters.TryGetValue("key", out key) == false ||
                parameters.TryGetValue("value", out value) == false)
            {
                await WriteResponse(context, String.Empty, HttpStatusCode.OK);
                return;
            }

            _wrapper.SetData(key, value);

            Data data = new Data();
            data.Key = key;
            data.Value = value;

            string str = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data);
            await WriteResponse(context, str, HttpStatusCode.OK);
        }

        private async Task RequestVerbGetData(HttpListenerContext context, Dictionary<string, string> parameters)
        {
            string key;
            string value;

            if (parameters.TryGetValue("key", out key) == false)
            {
                await WriteResponse(context, String.Empty, HttpStatusCode.OK);
                return;
            }

            _wrapper.GetData(key, out value);

            Data data = new Data();
            data.Key = key;
            data.Value = value;

            string str = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data);
            await WriteResponse(context, str, HttpStatusCode.OK);
        }
    }
}

LMDB – I love that stuff !

Since few months, I work on LMDB for Azure stuff. First, I have:

• migrated the library from Linux to Windows x64
• adapted the .NET Layer Interop
• made custom clients code

Now, I have setup the Azure Web App Svc for hosting a simple file uploader where files will be stored in LMDB NoSQL database. The way of using it is so simple :

        private static void StoreFile(string path)
        {
            string key = path;
            string value = String.Empty;
            byte[] buffer = File.ReadAllBytes(path);

            LMDBEnvironment _env;
            string dir = "c:\\temp\\cache_net10B";
            _env = new LMDBEnvironment(dir);
            _env.MaxDatabases = 2;
            _env.MapSize = 10485760 * 100;
            _env.Open();

            DateTime dtStart = DateTime.Now;
            var tx = _env.BeginTransaction();
            var db = tx.OpenDatabase("DB", new DatabaseConfiguration { Flags = DatabaseOpenFlags.Create });
            var enc = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
            tx.Put(db, enc.GetBytes(key), buffer);
            tx.Commit();
            db.Dispose();

            DateTime dtStop = DateTime.Now;
            TimeSpan ts = dtStop - dtStart;
            string str = String.Format("Time elapsed for set:{0} ms", ts.TotalMilliseconds);
            Logger.LogInfo(str);

            _env.Dispose();
        }

 

If you want to test LMDB in your environement, download that stuff:

Download the LMDB Windows DLL and console_app.Exe
Download the LMDB Windows DLL, the .NET WRapper DLL and console_app.Exe

Create a simple cache in C# .NET

Here is a little sample of code I have written to simulate a cache, wich write the data every second on disk in the background in a dedicted thread.

Using this class Engine, you can write data to the internal dictionary and keep it safe because the database is written to disk… I do not have handled the reload of the data in the ctor… Here the client program who write any number of values you want:

If I run the console application using different values, here is the result:

D:\Dev\MyCache\ConsoleApp1\bin\Debug>ConsoleApp1.exe 10
Count: 10
Time elapsed set: 0 ms
Time elapsed get: 0 ms
Writing DB…
Writing DB OK

D:\Dev\MyCache\ConsoleApp1\bin\Debug>ConsoleApp1.exe 100
Count: 100
Time elapsed set: 0 ms
Time elapsed get: 0 ms
Writing DB…
Writing DB OK

D:\Dev\MyCache\ConsoleApp1\bin\Debug>ConsoleApp1.exe 1000
Count: 1000
Time elapsed set: 1 ms
Time elapsed get: 1 ms
Writing DB…
Writing DB OK

D:\Dev\MyCache\ConsoleApp1\bin\Debug>ConsoleApp1.exe 10000
Count: 10000
Time elapsed set: 7 ms
Time elapsed get: 13 ms
Writing DB…
Writing DB OK

D:\Dev\MyCache\ConsoleApp1\bin\Debug>ConsoleApp1.exe 100000
Count: 100000
Time elapsed set: 98 ms
Time elapsed get: 140 ms
Writing DB…
Writing DB OK

D:\Dev\MyCache\ConsoleApp1\bin\Debug>ConsoleApp1.exe 1000000
Count: 1000000
Writing DB…
Writing DB OK
Time elapsed set: 3656 ms
Time elapsed get: 4023 ms
Writing DB…
Writing DB OK

Source code here: MyCache.zip

MCP Programming C# PASS

I have passed the 70-483 “Programming C#” exam from Microsoft. It is a large scope game of questions… I must admit it was not so easy. But the most important is to pass it and now change my mind with others things !