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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 responsive UIs with .NET MAUI

Microsoft .NET MAUI is the new version of Xamarin.Forms. There have been some significant changes between Xamarin.Forms version 5.0 and .NET MAUI (Xamarin.Forms version 6.0). The biggest change in MAUI has been to combine the Android, iOS, and macOS projects into a main project. While the code specific to Windows still resides in its own project, Microsoft is working to include the Windows code in the main project. This will lead to us having one single project for writing cross-platform applications using C# and XAML. Let’s have a look at some of the other improvements to building cross-platform applications using .NET MAUI.

Note

If you are using an early version of MAUI, to run the Windows project, you will need to set the Windows project as the startup project and deploy the project. Once the project is deployed, you can run the application from the Windows start menu.

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Another significant change made in .NET MAUI...