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In regex, capturing groups give you a way to save text and refer to it later. Capturing groups can be named, and referred to by their name. When they aren’t named, you refer to them by their index number. In this article, I’ll show how to use named capturing groups by solving the problem of … Read more
A CheckedListBox is a list control with multiple checkboxes. This allows the user to check multiple boxes at once. You can also programmatically check items in the CheckedListBox and remove them. How can I can get all the values they selected? By looping through the CheckedListBox.CheckedItems collection. See the UI and Code examples below. UI … Read more
One day I decided to challenge myself by trying to implement multithreaded quicksort. I wanted to see how it would compare to the built-in Array.Sort() method. I came up with two algorithms that were 2-4x faster than Array.Sort(): After continuing to tinker, in attempts to further optimize, I came across the AsParallel().OrderBy() method (PLINQ). After … Read more
I often need to be able to run multiple threads and update the UI based on the results. For example, I may need to execute GET requests to 10 different endpoints concurrently, and then report their results in a datagrid as they come back. The problem is you can’t just update the UI from any … Read more