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Reactive Programming for .NET Developers

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Reactive Programming for .NET Developers

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is an innovative programming paradigm focused on time-based problem solving. It makes your programs better-performing, easier to scale, and more reliable. Want to create fast-running applications to handle complex logics and huge datasets for financial and big-data challenges? Then you have picked up the right book! Starting with the principles of reactive programming and unveiling the power of the pull-programming world, this book is your one-stop solution to get a deep practical understanding of reactive programming techniques. You will gradually learn all about reactive extensions, programming, testing, and debugging observable sequence, and integrating events from CLR data-at-rest or events. Finally, you will dive into advanced techniques such as manipulating time in data-flow, customizing operators and providers, and exploring functional reactive programming. By the end of the book, you'll know how to apply reactive programming to solve complex problems and build efficient programs with reactive user interfaces.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Reactive Programming for .NET Developers
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Setting up Rx.NET


To configure our .NET-based application to use the Rx.NET classes, we can simply ask NuGet to download the Rx-Main (Reactive Extensions -  Main Library) package.

This action will register all .NET assemblies in our application, including other NuGet packages, such as Rx-Core, Rx-Interfaces, Rx-PlatformServices, and Rx-Linq, all from Microsoft Corp.

NuGet Rx-Main package

Other packages are available using NuGet. This book will cover only the mainline of such package distributions.

At the time of writing this book, Rx was available in version 2.2.5 that was released in July 2014. Although in May 2015 a version 2.3.0 beta was available throughout NuGet, a stable 2.3.x release is still not available.

A stable version 2.x was available in August 2012, supporting .NET 4.0, 4.5, 4.5 for Store Apps, Windows Phone 7.5, and Silverlight 5.