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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

Chapter 14: Multi-Threaded Programming

In this chapter, you will learn about multi-threaded programming. You will learn what threads are and about background and foreground threads. Then, you will learn how to pass data into threads before you run them. You will also learn how to pause, interrupt, destroy, schedule, and cancel threads.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Understanding threads and threading: This section covers the life cycle of threads.
  • Creating threads with and without parameters: This section provides examples of thread creation with and without parameters.
  • Pausing and interrupting threads: This section covers how to pause and interrupt threads.
  • Destroying and canceling threads: This section covers destroying and canceling threads.
  • Scheduling threads: This section covers how to schedule threads.
  • Thread synchronization and locks: This section covers how to synchronize threads, protect resources, and prevent deadlocks...