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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 1, Introducing C# 10.0 and .NET 6

  1. Performance improvements in the garbage collector and JIT compiler, improved performance of text-based processing, faster regular expression processing, and performance of threading and asynchronous operations has been boosted. There have also been performance improvements to collections, LINQ, networking, and Blazor; plus, there are additional performance-based APIs and analyzers that are new to .NET 6.
  2. You can now write top-level programs and use init-only properties and records. There are new pattern matching features and new expressions with targeted types. You can use covariant returns and perform native compilation.
  3. dotnet and ngen.
  4. Run the Microsoft Store app performance assessment. Follow Microsoft’s advice based on the assessment to improve your app’s performance, and address each of the highlighted issues found with your app.
  5. Perform baseline measurements, begin optimizations by performing the refactoring...