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High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

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

High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

3.6 (8)
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)
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Part 1: High-Performance Code Foundation
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Part 2: Writing High-Performance Code
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Part 3: Threading and Concurrency

Pausing and interrupting threads

In this section, we will look at pausing and interrupting threads. An example of why you would need to pause or interrupt a thread is if the code running is a debugger. If a thread is executing and it hits a breakpoint, it would need to be paused.

The most common way to pause/delay a thread is to call Thread.Sleep(millisecondsDuration), but this may freeze the main thread and your users may think your program has stopped working, leading them to terminate it.

A better way to delay a thread is to let Task.Delay(TimeSpan) run in the background. This will allow the thread to work in the background and prevent the delayed thread from stopping the main thread from doing its work.

The following code shows how to delay a thread:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
     Console.WriteLine($"Current Time: {DateTime.Now}");
     var delay = Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
  ...
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