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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

Creating multiple threads


Sometimes, we need to create multiple threads. Before we can continue, however, we need to wait for these threads to complete doing whatever they need to do. For this, the use of tasks is best suited.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have added the using System.Threading.Tasks; statement to the top of your Recipes class.

How to do it…

  1. Create a new method called MultipleThreadWait() in your Recipes class. Then, create a second method called RunThread() with the private modifier, which takes an integer of seconds to make the thread sleep. This will simulate the process of doing some work for a variable amount of time:

    public class Recipes
    {
        public void MultipleThreadWait()
        {        
    
        }
    
        private void RunThread(int sleepSeconds)
        {        
    
        }
    }

    Note

    In reality, you would probably not call the same method. You could, for all intents and purposes, call three separate methods. Here, however, for the sake of simplicity, we will call the same method with...