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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

Using tracing and diagnostics tools

In this section, we will look at some profiling tools to help you trace and diagnose any issues with your code. By tracing and diagnosing your program, you can identify areas of performance concern and address them. Such concerns might be the number of memory allocations and the number of bytes they are using and identifying the number of objects surviving garbage collection. Such information can be useful in improving memory usage and performance and in preventing and removing memory leaks.

We will look at two offerings from JetBrains, called dotMemory and dotTrace, that are valuable tools in this respect. But first, we will start by looking at the built-in profiler that comes with Visual Studio 2022 called Performance Profiler.

Using the Visual Studio 2022 Performance Profiler

Now we are going to view the performance profile for our project. This will show us the number of objects over time and the way garbage collection is being utilized...