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Archive for July, 2009

C# Wait for all threads completed with timeout

We only want to do something after all threads finish their work. The advantage is that all the threads can work simultaneously while each of them has no dependency to the other. Typically, I found it improves efficiency when making call to the remove webservice.
For example, there is a web service operation called getProductById(int [...]

XML deserialization, XML undefined property becomes an empty list

When deserialize XML into object, the object’s property becomes an empty list even if the property is absence from the XML, the expected behavior is the property is null.
For example, given a class

public class MyFoo
    {
        public string Id { get; set; }
        [XmlArrayItem(“Name”)]
        public [...]