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C# 7 and .NET Core Cookbook - Second Edition

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C# 7 and .NET Core Cookbook - Second Edition

Overview of this book

C# has recently been open-sourced and C# 7 comes with a host of new features for building powerful, cross-platform applications. This book will be your solution to some common programming problems that you come across with C# and will also help you get started with .NET Core 1.1. Through a recipe-based approach, this book will help you overcome common programming challenges and get your applications ready to face the modern world. We start by running you through new features in C# 7, such as tuples, pattern matching, and so on, giving you hands-on experience with them. Moving forward, you will work with generics and the OOP features in C#. You will then move on to more advanced topics, such as reactive extensions, Regex, code analyzers, and asynchronous programming. This book will also cover new, cross-platform .NET Core 1.1 features and teach you how to utilize .NET Core on macOS. Then, we will explore microservices as well as serverless computing and how these benefit modern developers. Finally, you will learn what you can do with Visual Studio 2017 to put mobile application development across multiple platforms within the reach of any developer.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Creating and aborting a low-priority background thread

The reason we want to take a look at a background thread specifically is because, by default, all threads created by the main app thread or Thread class constructor are foreground threads. So, what exactly separates a foreground thread from a background thread? Well, background threads are identical to foreground threads with the exception that if all foreground threads are terminated, the background threads are stopped too. This is useful if you have a process in your application that must not stop the application from terminating. In other words, while your application is running, the background threads must continue to run.

Getting ready

We will create a simple application that defines the thread created as...