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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

Understanding the TAP model

Before we begin, it is worth noting that there are three different models for dealing with asynchronous programming. These are as follows:

  • The Asynchronous Programming Model (APM)
  • The Event-Based Asynchronous Pattern (EAP) model
  • The Task Parallelism Library (TPL)

APM uses BeginMethod to start the asynchronous process and EndMethod to complete the asynchronous process. EAP uses MethodAsync to start an asynchronous process, CancelAsync to handle the cancellation of an asynchronous operation, and a completed event handler to handle the completed asynchronous operation. Both these ways of performing asynchronous operations were replaced by TPL in C# 4.5.

TPL uses the async and await pattern. Asynchronous method names are suffixed with async. An asynchronous method usually returns an awaitable Task or Task<Result>. From .NET 4.5 onwards, you are advised to use TPL instead of using APM and EAP.

TAP's foundation types are...