The below mentioned practices can Improve your .net codes performance
1. DateTime.Now() method is commonly used to get the current time. The value returned by the Now() method is in the current machine time-zone context. A common practice is to convert time that is going to be stored or sent between machines into Universal (UCT) time. When daylight savings time is a possibility, this can introduce bugs. For example –
DateTime date = DateTime.Now().ToUniversalTime();
The value that results from the above code will be off by an hour if called during the extra hour that occurs during the daylight savings time switch in the fall. To fi x this, a best practice is to call DateTime. UtcNow() instead of calling DateTime.Now(), and then converting it to universal time.
DateTime date = DateTime.UtcNow();
This code will always have the 24-hour-day perspective, and may then be safely converted to local time.
2. When using Add/Subtract functions with DateTime, take into account the daylight savings time.
For example –
DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(“Nov 4, 2007 12:00:00 AM”); dt = dt.AddHours(3.0);
The expected result will be 03:00:00 AM. This result may seem correct at fi rst; however, on November 04, 2007, at 02:00 AM PST, the daylight savings time change took effect. So the correct answer should have been Nov 4, 2007, 02:00:00 AM. To avoid this, the following syntax can be used:
dt = dt.ToUniversalTime().AddHours(3.0).ToLocalTime();
This converts the local time to UTC, performs the calculation, and then converts back to local time.
3. Do not compare strings by converting them to uppercase or lowercase, use String.Compare instead, which can ignore the case and compare.
4 .Avoid the use of ArrayList - Objects added to the ArrayList are added as System.Object and when retrieving values back from the ArrayList, these objects have to be unboxed to return the actual value type. So it is recommended to use the custom typed collections instead of ArrayList.
For example - string objects can be stored in StringCollection (System.Collection.Specialized)
5. Always catch the specifi c exceptions instead of generic System Exception.
6. While copying data from one DataTable to another, the simple way is to clone an existing DataTable, loop through all rows of source
DataTable and copy data column by column and add row to the destination DataTable. But this is not a feasible solution if there are millions of records.
Hence, a better way is to use the DataTable. ImportRow()method.
The ImportRow() method of the DataTable copies a row into a DataTable with all of the properties and data of the row. It actually calls NewRow() method on destination DataTable with current table schema and sets DataRowState to "Added".
Benefits
* Performance of the application can be improved.
* Some of these tips will give more accurate results.
* Quality of coding can be improved.
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