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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

Understanding code metrics

In this section, we will be looking at the code metrics that can be gathered using various tools that are paid for, free, and open source. Source code metrics are extracted from source code and are used to measure the quality and performance of our source code.

Note

Different tools have different metrics that they can measure and calculate. Since each tool is different, it is a good idea for you to see what tools and metrics are available that satisfy your own project's requirements.

In the upcoming subsections, we will learn about the different code metrics that we can use to measure our code and improve performance.

Application metrics

Application metrics cover your application's complete source code across assemblies. They give you the big picture regarding how many lines of code your application has, along with how many lines are covered by tests.

In this section, we will cover, from a high level, the various metrics that...