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High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

By : Jason Alls
Book Image

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 8, File and Stream I/O

  1. Absolute, relative, UNC, and DOS device.
  2. In the registry editor, set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\LongPathsEnabled to 1.
  3. The most efficient way to calculate the size of a directory is to get DirectoryInfo for the directory, followed by the call to GetFileSystemInfos(). You then iterate through the result, adding the length of each FileInfo object to get the directory’s size.
  4. The most efficient method of moving files is to obtain FileInfo objects from the in-memory cache and then use the FileInfo.MoveTo(string destination) method to move the file.
  5. When you encounter a non-recoverable exception before you exit the application.
  6. IOException.
  7. Local, Local Cache, Roaming, Temporary, and C:\ProgramData.
  8. Users may only install the software for themselves when prompted. This will result in each logged-on person using the software having their own copy of the data, with the data located in...