Using Parallel LINQ in C#

Published by Ferhat 193 days ago
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The snippets below illustrate Parallel LINQ in C# by crawling a web page in parallel. The Crawler class is responsible for crawling a web page (only one level deep) and returning a list of documents. The Document class represents an HTML document.

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GZip compression and decompression in C#

Published by Ferhat 193 days ago
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The snippets below illustrate GZip compression and decompression using the GZipStream classes.

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Using PhantomJS to request a web page

Published by Ferhat 193 days ago
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PhantomJS is a very nice headless browser which uses the WebKit browser engine. It can be used for many purposes. However, I’m going to illustrate PhantomJS by performing a Bing search query and also executing JavaScript code on the page. Libraries such as jQuery can be injected into the page to perform all kinds of operations.

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Parsing (X)HTML into a DOM tree in C#

Published by Ferhat 193 days ago
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As a quick alternative to the Html Agility Pack, HTML can be parsed into a DOM tree using the built-in XmlDocument class. The following snippets illustrate HTML parsing in C#.

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Alphanumeric/natural sorting in C# using IComparer

Published by Ferhat 193 days ago
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These snippets illustrate the natural sorting order. Suppose you’re using numbers within your file names. For example:

  • file1.png
  • file2.png
  • …
  • file10.png
  • file11.png
  • file12.png

You’d expect to see them in the above order. However,  they are (by default) sorted as follows.

  • file1.png
  • file10.png
  • file11.png
  • file12.png
  • file2.png
  • …

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(JavaScript) Augment Storage Prototype with getObject, setObject

Published by SnipBot 202 days ago
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Provides getter/setter functionality for objects in local storage. Utilizes JSON.stringify and JSON.parse.

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(C#) C# LINQ & Extension method continued

Published by SnipBot 253 days ago
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Also extended C# LINQ and Extension method (simple) to include the last (MAX) Date Created property, added a new Folder class (model) with properties and included them in a List. Also, amended the LINQ statement to get the MAX(Date Created) .

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Play a movie in fullscreen (Objective-C)

Published by Ferhat 257 days ago
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Hi,

In reply to http://snipd.net/objective-c-play-a-video-in-full-screen#comment-290 . The following snippets show how to play a movie in fullscreen.

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(Java) Operational System Validator

Published by SnipBot 258 days ago
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Check which operating system the program is running. The program explains itself.

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(PHP) PHP Miles to Latitude and Miles to Longitude Converter

Published by SnipBot 292 days ago
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There are tons of functions out there to calculate the distance between two points, but what if you know one point and want to calculate the latitude (“vertical”) or longitude (“horizontal”) equivalent of a fixed distance, in miles? An example application would be in generating a minimum & maximum latitude and longitude bounding box around an area to limit the results of a database query that uses distance from a fixed point.

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