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Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

By : Shakti Tanwar
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Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

By: Shakti Tanwar

Overview of this book

In today’s world, every CPU has a multi-core processor. However, unless your application has implemented parallel programming, it will fail to utilize the hardware’s full processing capacity. This book will show you how to write modern software on the optimized and high-performing .NET Core 3 framework using C# 8. Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3 covers how to build multithreaded, concurrent, and optimized applications that harness the power of multi-core processors. Once you’ve understood the fundamentals of threading and concurrency, you’ll gain insights into the data structure in .NET Core that supports parallelism. The book will then help you perform asynchronous programming in C# and diagnose and debug parallel code effectively. You’ll also get to grips with the new Kestrel server and understand the difference between the IIS and Kestrel operating models. Finally, you’ll learn best practices such as test-driven development, and run unit tests on your parallel code. By the end of the book, you’ll have developed a deep understanding of the core concepts of concurrency and asynchrony to create responsive applications that are not CPU-intensive.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamentals of Threading, Multitasking, and Asynchrony
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Section 2: Data Structures that Support Parallelism in .NET Core
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Section 3: Asynchronous Programming Using C#
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Section 4: Debugging, Diagnostics, and Unit Testing for Async Code
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Section 5: Parallel Programming Feature Additions to .NET Core

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned about writing unit test cases for async methods, which helps in achieving robust code, supporting large teams, and adapting to new CI/CD platforms, which helps in finding issues at a very early stage. We started by introducing a few problems that you may come across while writing unit test cases for parallel and async code and how you can mitigate them using correct coding practices. Then, we moved on and looked at mocking, which is a very important aspect of unit testing.

We learned that Moq has support for .NET Core and that .NET Core is evolving very fast; soon, there will be support for all the major mocking frameworks. All the steps for writing test cases were explained as well, including installing Moq as a NuGet package and setting up data for mock objects. Finally, we explored the features of an important testing tool, Test Explorer...