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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

Building a responsive UI with WinForms

In this section, we will be building a very simple WinForms application that is Dots Per Inch (DPI)-aware and enables the user to continue working during long-running operations. The application has a splash screen with a progress bar and an updated label that provides visual feedback to the user that the application is busy loading. Once the loading progress has been completed, the splash screen closes, and the main window is displayed.

On the main window, there is a label that gets updated every time you click on the increment count button, a paged table that you can navigate through using the buttons provided, and a progress indicator for a long-running task that also has a cancel button.

While the long-running task is executing, you can move the window around, increment the label by clicking the increment count button, and you can page through the data. If you choose to, you can also cancel the long-running task.

When the long-running...