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High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

By : Jason Alls
Book Image

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

Writing the Product class

In this section, we will update our Product class. It is a simple object that is used for data manipulation benchmarks and contains properties that match the Products table in the Northwind database. Follow these steps:

  1. Open the Product class and update it as follows:
    using System;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
    [Table("Products")]
    public class Product
    {
    }

Here, we annotated our class with the Table annotation, passing the name of the table in the Northwind database that this class maps to into the annotation.

  1. Add the following properties and annotations:
    [Key]
    public int ProductID { get; set; }
    public string ProductName { get; set; }
    [ForeignKey("Suppliers")]
    public int SupplierID { get; set; }
    [ForeignKey("Categories")]
    public int CategoryID { get; set; }
    public string QuantityPerUnit { get; set; } = "1"
    public decimal UnitPrice...