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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 16, Asynchronous Programming

  1. Task-based asynchronous pattern.
  2. CancellationToken.
  3. IProgress<T>.
  4. An asynchronous method is declared, with the async keyword preceding the method name. The await keyword precedes an asynchronous operation and prevents the continuation of any further code until the asynchronous operation is complete. Task is what an asynchronous method returns. For void methods, the return type is Task, and for methods that return a value, the return type is Task<T>.
  5. Create a new CancelationTokenSource and then set the method of cancelation, such as CancelAfter(3000).
  6. Pass an IProgress<T> type into an asynchronous method as a parameter and add event handlers for the ProgressChanged event. Alternatively, you can pass a single handler into the Progress<T> constructor.