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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

Comparing IEnumerable and IEnumerator

The IEnumerable and IEnumerator interfaces can both be used for iteration but in different ways. Let's understand each in brief.

An object of the IEnumerable type will know how to traverse the collection that it holds, regardless of what its internal structure is like. There is one method that makes up an enumerable: GetEnumerator(). It returns as an instance of a class that implements the IEnumerable interface. Iteration is normally carried out using a foreach loop. Iterations of an enumerable are carried out using a foreach loop. However, an enumerable does not remember its location when iterating.

Objects of the Ienumerator type declare two methods: MoveNext() and Reset(). There is one property called Current that gets the current item in the list that's being enumerated. The MoveNext() method moves to the next record in a collection and returns a Boolean value indicating the end of the collection. Reset() will reset the position...