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High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

By : Jason Alls
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High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

By: Jason Alls

Overview of this book

Writing high-performance code while building an application is crucial, and over the years, Microsoft has focused on delivering various performance-related improvements within the .NET ecosystem. This book will help you understand the aspects involved in designing responsive, resilient, and high-performance applications with the new version of C# and .NET. You will start by understanding the foundation of high-performance code and the latest performance-related improvements in C# 10.0 and .NET 6. Next, you’ll learn how to use tracing and diagnostics to track down performance issues and the cause of memory leaks. The chapters that follow then show you how to enhance the performance of your networked applications and various ways to improve directory tasks, file tasks, and more. Later, you’ll go on to improve data querying performance and write responsive user interfaces. You’ll also discover how you can use cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure to build scalable distributed solutions. Finally, you’ll explore various ways to process code synchronously, asynchronously, and in parallel to reduce the time it takes to process a series of tasks. By the end of this C# programming book, you’ll have the confidence you need to build highly resilient, high-performance applications that meet your customer's demands.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: High-Performance Code Foundation
7
Part 2: Writing High-Performance Code
16
Part 3: Threading and Concurrency

Using pipelines for content streaming

System.IO.Pipelines is a high-performance I/O .NET library that was first shipped with .NET Core 2.1 and was born from performance work carried out by the Kestrel team. The purpose behind pipelines is to reduce the complexity of correctly parsing stream and socket data.

In this section, we will learn how to use pipelines with sockets. We will write to small console applications. The first console application will listen for incoming requests on port 7000 and output the contents to the console window. The second console application will listen for the newline key. When it is detected, it will send the contents of the command line to the server on port 7000. By completing this project, you will see how easy it is to write a network communication application with a minimal number of lines of code using pipes and sockets.

Let’s start by writing our server console app.

Writing and running a TCP server console application

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