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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 5: Application Profiling and Tracing

Application profiling is the internal examination of the inner workings of a computer program. We use application profiling to measure the performance of a program's internals. This helps us to identify any performance bottlenecks and memory issues. Then, we can use this information to refactor and improve the performance of the program.

Application tracing is used to monitor the internal performance of a computer program as it is running. You can trace the execution of your computer program during development, testing, and when released into production.

When used together, application profiling and application tracing can be very powerful and useful in identifying why computer programs are slow.

In this chapter, you will learn how to profile your applications to identify any poor areas of performance. You will come to understand code metrics and how to perform static code analysis. In your drive to write more performant code...