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C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications

By : Mark J. Price, Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
Book Image

C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications

By: Mark J. Price, Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

Overview of this book

C# is a widely used programming language, thanks to its easy learning curve, versatility, and support for modern paradigms. The language is used to create desktop apps, background services, web apps, and mobile apps. .NET Core is open source and compatible with Mac OS and Linux. There is no limit to what you can achieve with C# and .NET Core. This Learning Path begins with the basics of C# and object-oriented programming (OOP) and explores features of C#, such as tuples, pattern matching, and out variables. You will understand.NET Standard 2.0 class libraries and ASP.NET Core 2.0, and create professional websites, services, and applications. You will become familiar with mobile app development using Xamarin.Forms and learn to develop high-performing applications by writing optimized code with various profiling techniques. By the end of C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications, you will have all the knowledge required to build modern, cross-platform apps using C# and .NET. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 - Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition by Mark J. Price • C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance by Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
16
Designing Guidelines for .NET Core Application Performance
Index

Utilizing multiple cores of the CPU for high performance


These days, the nature of applications focuses more on connectivity, and there are cases where their operations take more time to execute. We also know that nowadays, all computers come with a multi-core processor, and using these cores effectively increases the performance of the application. Operations such as network/IO have latency issues, and the synchronous execution of the application program may often lead to a long waiting time. If the long-running tasks are executed in a separate thread or in an asynchronous manner, the resulting operation will take less time and increase responsiveness. Another benefit is performance that actually utilizes multiple cores of the processor and executes the task simultaneously. In the .NET world, we can achieve responsiveness and performance by splitting the tasks into multiple threads and using classic multithreading programming APIs, or a more simplified and advanced model known as the task...