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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
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About the Authors
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Preface

Sequence creation basics


In the previous chapter, we saw how to create sequences other than simply implementing the IObservable interface by creating our custom observables using the Subject class that gives us an initial implementation which is useful in a lot of cases, thus reducing the bootstrap time when programming in a reactive way.

We can create a new observable subject simply with the new keyword of the C# programming language. The same happens in regard to customized observable sequences (by implementing the IObservable interface). Other than this, we can create generic observable sequences with the factory methods available within the observable helper class that give us the ability to create sequences from the scratch without having to create custom classes, or by other values or other CLR objects, such as events and so on. These sequences are only observable sequences; they are not subjects and they are not observers.

A lot of the following factory methods will simply translate...