I have a C# function that converts a DataTable into a list of ExpandoObjects, where each object represents a row with properties dynamically assigned from the column names and values
public static IEnumerable<ExpandoObject> ToExpandoObject(this DataTable dataTable)
{
List<ExpandoObject> dynamicDt = [];
var splitColumnNames = dataTable.Columns.Cast<DataColumn>().Select(c => c.ColumnName.Split("_")[0]).ToArray();
foreach (DataRow row in dataTable.Rows)
{
dynamic dyn = new ExpandoObject();
dynamicDt.Add(dyn);
var columnIndex = 0;
foreach (DataColumn column in dataTable.Columns)
{
var dic = (IDictionary<string, object>)dyn;
dic[column.ColumnName] = ConvertColumnValue(row[column], splitColumnNames[columnIndex]);
columnIndex++;
}
}
return dynamicDt;
}
I want to improve the performance of this function by utilizing parallel processing How can I modify this function to run efficiently in parallel
>Solution :
use Parallelism with PLINQ The .AsParallel() method is used to enable parallel processing of DataRow objects. This method from PLINQ process the rows can occur on multiple threads and improving performance.
public static IEnumerable<ExpandoObject> ToExpandoObjectParallelism(this DataTable dataTable)
{
var splitColumnNames = dataTable.Columns.Cast<DataColumn>().Select(c => c.ColumnName.Split("_")[0]).ToArray();
// Utilize PLINQ to process rows in parallel
return dataTable.Rows.Cast<DataRow>().AsParallel().Select(row =>
{
IDictionary<string, object> expando = new ExpandoObject();
for (var columnIndex = 0; columnIndex < dataTable.Columns.Count; columnIndex++)
{
var column = dataTable.Columns[columnIndex];
expando[column.ColumnName] = ConvertColumnValue(row[column], splitColumnNames[columnIndex]);
}
return (ExpandoObject)expando;
});
}