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Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

By : Shakti Tanwar
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Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

By: Shakti Tanwar

Overview of this book

In today’s world, every CPU has a multi-core processor. However, unless your application has implemented parallel programming, it will fail to utilize the hardware’s full processing capacity. This book will show you how to write modern software on the optimized and high-performing .NET Core 3 framework using C# 8. Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3 covers how to build multithreaded, concurrent, and optimized applications that harness the power of multi-core processors. Once you’ve understood the fundamentals of threading and concurrency, you’ll gain insights into the data structure in .NET Core that supports parallelism. The book will then help you perform asynchronous programming in C# and diagnose and debug parallel code effectively. You’ll also get to grips with the new Kestrel server and understand the difference between the IIS and Kestrel operating models. Finally, you’ll learn best practices such as test-driven development, and run unit tests on your parallel code. By the end of the book, you’ll have developed a deep understanding of the core concepts of concurrency and asynchrony to create responsive applications that are not CPU-intensive.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamentals of Threading, Multitasking, and Asynchrony
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Section 2: Data Structures that Support Parallelism in .NET Core
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Section 3: Asynchronous Programming Using C#
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Section 4: Debugging, Diagnostics, and Unit Testing for Async Code
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Section 5: Parallel Programming Feature Additions to .NET Core

Introduction to Parallel Programming

Parallel programming has been supported in .NET since the start and it has gained a strong footing since the introduction of the Task Parallel Library (TPL) from .NET framework 4.0 onward.

Multithreading is a subset of parallel programming and is one of the least understood aspects of programming; it's one that many new developers struggle to understand. C# has evolved significantly since its inception. It has very strong support, not only for multithreading but also for asynchronous programming. Multithreading in C# goes way back to C# version 1.0. C# is primarily synchronous, but with the strong async support that has been added from C# 5.0 onward, it has become the first choice for application programmers. Whereas multithreading only deals with how to parallelize within processes, parallel programming also deals with inter-process communication...