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Published inAug 2022
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Alvin Ashcraft
Alvin Ashcraft
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Alvin Ashcraft

Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer and developer community champion with over 25 years of experience in software development. Working primarily with Microsoft Windows, web, and cloud technologies, his career has focused primarily on the healthcare industry. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP 11 times, most recently as a Windows Dev MVP. Alvin works in the Philadelphia area for Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, as a principal software engineer. He is also a board member of the TechBash Foundation, where he helps organize the annual TechBash developer conference. He has previously worked for companies such as Oracle, Genzeon, CSC, and ITG Pathfinders. Originally from the Allentown, PA area, Alvin currently resides in West Grove, PA with his wife and three daughters.
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Using ConcurrentDictionary

In this section, we will create a WinForms application to load United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug data concurrently from two files. Once loaded to ConcurrentDictionary, we can perform fast lookups with a National Drug Code (NDC) value to fetch the name. The FDA drug data is freely available to download in several formats from the NDC directory: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-approvals-and-databases/national-drug-code-directory. We will be working with tab-delimited text files. I have downloaded the product.txt file and moved about half of the records to a product2.txt file, duplicating the header row in the second file. You can get these files in the GitHub repository for the chapter at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Parallel-Programming-and-Concurrency-with-C-sharp-10-and-.NET-6/tree/main/chapter09/FdaNdcDrugLookup:

  1. Start by creating a new WinForms project in Visual Studio targeting .NET 6. Name the project FdaNdcDrugLookup...
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Alvin Ashcraft

Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer and developer community champion with over 25 years of experience in software development. Working primarily with Microsoft Windows, web, and cloud technologies, his career has focused primarily on the healthcare industry. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP 11 times, most recently as a Windows Dev MVP. Alvin works in the Philadelphia area for Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, as a principal software engineer. He is also a board member of the TechBash Foundation, where he helps organize the annual TechBash developer conference. He has previously worked for companies such as Oracle, Genzeon, CSC, and ITG Pathfinders. Originally from the Allentown, PA area, Alvin currently resides in West Grove, PA with his wife and three daughters.
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