Parallel for loop in C# 4.0

Now days we are getting our computer equipped with more and more power even now we are getting quad core processor is also at lower price. Since we have multicore processors are now so we can take advantages of multicore processor with parallel execution in C# 4.0. There are some time consuming task for the computer for example a long for loop or similar kind of things. This kind of task can be done parallel with parallel class in C# 4.0.

Now in C# 4.0 you have the Parallel static class with the help of this you can perform task parallel very easily. In this post I am going to explain Parallel for loop. Let’s take a very simple example. First lets create a example with simple for loop. Following is code for that.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace Parallel
{
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i <=100000; i++)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(i);
        }
       
    }
}
}

In the above its a normal loop which increments I and then print the that number into the console screen and Here is the output.



Here in the output you can see its sequentially process one by one now lets change this code to parallel for loop like following.

using System;

namespace Parallel
{
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.For(0, 100000, i =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine(i);
        }
        );
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}
}

Here in the above code you can see that I have used parallel for which also prints the Incremented integer in console application. Now let’s run that code and see the output as following.

If you see the output very carefully then you can see that its not processing sequentially one by one but its processing it parallel and its will be much faster if you have multicore processor in your computer. But beware if you are going to run in simple processor computer its going to take more time then normal computer. That’s it. Hope you liked it.. Stay tuned for more.. Till that happy programming..

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CRUD Operation with ASP.NET MVC and EFCodeFirst Part-2

In the previous post I have already explained How we can list data from database easily with the help of EFCodeFirst . In this post I am going to explain How we can complete Create,Edit,Delete and Details operations within 10 minutes. So let’s first Start with Create a new Customer.I am going use same example of customer from previous post. So we have customer controller there so Let’s first create a new view for Create via Selecting View in Create() method of Customer Controller and Clicking on Add View and dialog box will open for add view like following.



As you can see in the above template I have selected Customer Model Class for strongly typed view and Selected Scaffold template as Create once you click Add your view will be ready. Now its time to write for code in customer controller to Add Customer. So I have modified Create Method of customer controller which we have created like following.

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(Models.Customer customer)
{
  try
  {
      using (var databaseContext = new Models.MyDataContext())
      {
          databaseContext.Customer.Add(customer);
          databaseContext.SaveChanges();
      }
    
      return RedirectToAction("Index");
  }
  catch
  {
      return View();
  }
}

That's it. We have done with Create Customer now. In the above databasecontext add method will add customer and SaveChanges method will save changed to database.
Now once we are done with Add its time to create edit and update functionality. Let’s first Add a view via Selecting view with Edit Method in clicking on Add view. Once you click a dialogbox for add View will open for that like following.



As you can see you I have selected scaffold template as Edit and I have Created Strongly typed view with Customer class. Once you click add it will create a new view for Edit. Now our Edit View is ready so let’s write code for Edit/Update in database. So first we have to modify Edit(int Id) method like following which will return specific customer with View. Following is a code for that.

public ActionResult Edit(int id)
{
  using (var databaseContext = new Models.MyDataContext())
  {
      return View(databaseContext.Customer.Find(id));
  }
}

Now let write code to update the changes to database. So for that I have modified another ActionResult Edit of customer controller like following.

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Edit(int id, Models.Customer customer)
{
  try
  {
      using (var databaseContext = new Models.MyDataContext())
      {
          databaseContext.Entry(customer).State= System.Data.EntityState.Modified;
          databaseContext.SaveChanges();
      }
      return RedirectToAction("Index");
  }
  catch
  {
      return View();
  }
}

That's it we are done with the edit stuff.In above code the state modified will tell databasecontext that customer details is modified and savechanges will save changed to database. Now its time to create view for delete functionality. So I have clicked on Add View and Created a view for delete like following.



Here I have create Strongly typed view with Delete Scaffold Template. Now let’s modified both Delete Action Result in Customer Controller class. First Action result will return customer which we are going to delete and another delete action result with id will delete the customer from database and then it will return to main customer page. I have modified the code for both as following.

// GET: /Customer/Delete/5

public ActionResult Delete(int id)
{
  using (var databaseContext = new Models.MyDataContext())
  {
      return View(databaseContext.Customer.Find(id));
  }

}

//
// POST: /Customer/Delete/5

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Delete(int id,Models.Customer customer)
{
  try
  {
      using (var databaseContext = new Models.MyDataContext())
      {
          databaseContext.Entry(databaseContext.Customer.Find(id)).State = System.Data.EntityState.Deleted;
          databaseContext.SaveChanges();
      }

      return RedirectToAction("Index");
  }
  catch
  {
      return View();
  }
}

Here I have done something different then editing stuff to demonstrate the feature of Entity framework. You can also use Id for finding the current customer and then change its state to delete and SaveChanges will save that to in database. So now we are done with delete also. It’s now time to create details part. So same as above I have create a view with scaffold template details with customer model like following.



Once we are done with creating view . It’s time to change the code for Details Action Result like following to return current customer detail.

public ActionResult Details(int id)
{
  using (var databaseContext = new Models.MyDataContext())
  {
      return View(databaseContext.Customer.Find(id));
  }
}

So that's it. We are done with all the stuff. So with Entity Framework code first. You can create basic CRUD application within 30 minutes without writing so much code. Hope you liked it. Stay tuned for more.. Till that Happy programming.

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CRUD Operation with ASP.NET MVC and EFCodeFirst Part-1

I have been playing with EFCodeFirst now and I found it very interesting with that you could write your application fast and easily. So I have decided to write series of blog posts for CRUD Operations using ASP.NET MVC 3 and EFCodeFirstCTP5.0 . You can very easily create CRUD within some minutes of code. So let’s start first thing is to create an ASP.NET MVC 3 application like following.



Once you click OK. It will ask for the which type of View your are going to use. I have used Razor and HTML5 Semantic like following.



Now once we have create a application Now its time to add EFCodeFirst reference via NuGet. So Go to the Library Package Manager –> Manage Nuget Package Manager. It will open up a dialog like following. Search EFCodeFirst and then it will fine EFCodeFirst package like following.



Once you click Install it will add reference to your ASP.NET MVC Application like following.



So now all the things are set Its time to code now. So first I have Create my Table which is very simple table called Customer like I have used in previous post. For your reference I am putting the create table script below.

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Customer](
   [CustomerId] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
   [FirstName] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
   [LastName] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
   [Address] [nvarchar](256) NULL,
   [City] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Customer] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
   [CustomerId] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY

Now let's create our entity class called customer like following.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace CodeSimplified.Models
{
   public class Customer
   {
       public int CustomerId { get; set; }
       public string FirstName { get; set; }
       public string LastName { get; set; }
       public string Address { get; set; }
       public string City { get; set; }
   }
}

Now Its time to create a our datacontext class So I have created MyDataContext class inherited from the DBContextClass . In that I have defined my customer dbset and Also I override the default plural behaviour in ModelCreating Table. DBSet will tell datacontext which table we need to refer. So following is code for that.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.Conventions.Edm.Db;

namespace CodeSimplified.Models
{
   public class MyDataContext:DbContext
   {
       public DbSet<Customer> Customer { get; set; }

       protected override void OnModelCreating(System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
       {
           modelBuilder.Conventions.Remove<PluralizingTableNameConvention>();
       }
   }
}

Now our database access stuff is ready now It’s time to create controller. So I have clicked controller folder and click on add new controller so add controller dialog box will appear like following.



It will create a controller class like following.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace CodeSimplified.Controllers
{
   public class CustomerController : Controller
   {
       //
       // GET: /Customer/

       public ActionResult Index()
       {
           return View();
       }

       //
       // GET: /Customer/Details/5

       public ActionResult Details(int id)
       {
           return View();
       }

       //
       // GET: /Customer/Create

       public ActionResult Create()
       {
           return View();
       }

       //
       // POST: /Customer/Create

       [HttpPost]
       public ActionResult Create(FormCollection collection)
       {
           try
           {
               // TODO: Add insert logic here

               return RedirectToAction("Index");
           }
           catch
           {
               return View();
           }
       }
      
       //
       // GET: /Customer/Edit/5

       public ActionResult Edit(int id)
       {
           return View();
       }

       //
       // POST: /Customer/Edit/5

       [HttpPost]
       public ActionResult Edit(int id, FormCollection collection)
       {
           try
           {
               // TODO: Add update logic here

               return RedirectToAction("Index");
           }
           catch
           {
               return View();
           }
       }

       //
       // GET: /Customer/Delete/5

       public ActionResult Delete(int id)
       {
           return View();
       }

       //
       // POST: /Customer/Delete/5

       [HttpPost]
       public ActionResult Delete(int id, FormCollection collection)
       {
           try
           {
               // TODO: Add delete logic here

               return RedirectToAction("Index");
           }
           catch
           {
               return View();
           }
       }
   }
}

Now once our controller is ready now its time to write some code for Index Action Result which we are going to have a list of customer. So I have changed Index Action Result like following to return customer view.

public ActionResult Index()
{
   using (var databaseContext=new Models.MyDataContext())
   {
       return View(databaseContext.Customer.ToList());
   }
}

Now let create a view from the controller. So Selected a view in right click Add View from Index Action Result. Here I have selected strongly typed view with Customer Model and selected list Template like following.



That’s it we are done with listing of the customer. Now its time to run our application and following is the output as expected.



Hoped you like this…Stay tuned for more.. Till that happy programming.

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