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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 2: Implementing C# Interoperability

This chapter is an optional chapter for those who would like to or need to use C# to interoperate with Excel, Python, C++, and Visual Basic 6 (VB6).

Python has become a very popular programming language in recent months and is now a very big player in data science and machine learning. Since big data employs various technologies that are required to work with each other under various business scenarios, in this chapter, you will learn how to execute Python scripts and code from C#. You can also use IronPython.NET on the .NET platform, but since this book is for C# programmers, we will not be considering IronPython.NET in this chapter.

There are times when it is necessary to access libraries written in C++ – especially when performance is an issue, and you need that extra performance in advanced games.

In this chapter, you will learn about Microsoft .NET interoperability. It is advantageous to move your complete code base...