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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

Installing and using dotnet-counters

In this section, we will install and use dotnet-counters. These counters are very useful data-gathering tools that help us to monitor the health of our programs.

Open Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2022. Then, type in the following command and press Enter:

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-counters --version 3.1.141901

This will download and install dotnet-tools. A successful installation will be presented, as shown in Figure 5.20:

Figure 5.20 – The successful installation of dotnet-tools version 3.1.141901 using Developer Command Prompt

The purpose of using dotnet-counters is to perform health monitoring and a first-level performance investigation of your applications. If when using this program, potential performance problems are identified, then you can perform a more serious performance investigation using tools such as PerfView or dotnet-trace:

  • To periodically collect selected counter...