Monday, October 25, 2010

Fast and easy way to search files using C# TPL

I wanted to play around with the .NET 4 Task Parallel Library (TPL) a bit so I wrote a "Task" oriented app to perform a file name and/or content search. The UI is Windows Forms. It's nothing pretty, but I found it to be much faster than using Windows Explorer when recursing down big trees and across network shares. The code is written using Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.

Let me know if you have any features requests or find serious bugs.

Click here to download.

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