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C# Programming Cookbook

By : Dirk Strauss
Book Image

C# Programming Cookbook

By: Dirk Strauss

Overview of this book

During your application development workflow, there is always a moment when you need to get out of a tight spot. Through a recipe-based approach, this book will help you overcome common programming problems and get your applications ready to face the modern world. We start with C# 6, giving you hands-on experience with the new language features. Next, we work through the tasks that you perform on a daily basis such as working with strings, generics, and lots more. Gradually, we move on to more advanced topics such as the concept of object-oriented programming, asynchronous programming, reactive extensions, and code contracts. You will learn responsive high performance programming in C# and how to create applications with Azure. Next, we will review the choices available when choosing a source control solution. At the end of the book, we will show you how to create secure and robust code, and will help you ramp up your skills when using the new version of C# 6 and Visual Studio
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
C# Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. High Performance Programming Using Parallel and Multithreading in C#

This chapter takes a look at improving your code's performance using multithreading and parallel programming. In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating and aborting a low-priority background thread

  • Increasing maximum thread pool size

  • Creating multiple threads

  • Locking one thread until the contended resources are available

  • Invoking parallel calls to methods using Parallel.Invoke

  • Using a parallel foreach loop to run multiple threads

  • Cancelling a parallel foreach loop

  • Catching errors in parallel foreach loops

  • Debugging multiple threads