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Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6

By : Alvin Ashcraft
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Book Image

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6

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By: Alvin Ashcraft

Overview of this book

.NET has included managed threading capabilities since the beginning, but early techniques had inherent risks: memory leaks, thread synchronization issues, and deadlocks. This book will help you avoid those pitfalls and leverage the modern constructs available in .NET 6 and C# 10, while providing recommendations on patterns and best practices for parallelism and concurrency. Parallel, concurrent, and asynchronous programming are part of every .NET application today, and it becomes imperative for modern developers to understand how to effectively use these techniques. This book will teach intermediate-level .NET developers how to make their applications faster and more responsive with parallel programming and concurrency in .NET and C# with practical examples. The book starts with the essentials of multi-threaded .NET development and explores how the language and framework constructs have evolved along with .NET. You will later get to grips with the different options available today in .NET 6, followed by insights into best practices, debugging, and unit testing. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of why, when, and how to employ parallelism and concurrency in any .NET application.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1:Introduction to Threading in .NET
6
Part 2: Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C#
12
Part 3: Advanced Concurrency Concepts

Data structures for parallel programming in .NET

When working with parallel programming in .NET, and with PLINQ, you should take advantage of the data structures, types, and primitives that .NET provides. In this section, we will touch on concurrent collections and synchronization primitives.

Concurrent collections

Concurrent collections are useful when working with parallel programming. We will cover them in great detail in Chapter 9, but let’s quickly discuss how we can leverage them when working with PLINQ queries.

If you are simply selecting and sorting data with PLINQ, it is not necessary to incur the overhead that is added with the collections in the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace. However, if you are calling a method with ForAll that modifies items in your source data, you should use one of these current collections, such as BlockingCollection<T>, ConcurrentBag<T>, or ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, TValue>. They can also guard against any...