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C# – Add or overwrite a value in ConcurrentDictionary

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The simplest way to add or overwrite a value in a ConcurrentDictionary is to use the indexer: If the key doesn’t exist, this adds it. If the key exists, this overwrites it. The indexer is thread-safe. The indexer is the simplest way to unconditionally add / overwrite a value. Sometimes you’ll want to use other … Read more

ASP.NET – Async SSE endpoint

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Server-Sent Events (SSE) allow a client to subscribe to messages on a server. The server pushes new messages to the client as they happen. This is an alternative to the client polling the server for new messages. In this article I’ll show how to implement the messaging system shown in the diagram below. This uses … Read more