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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

5 (1)
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

Using ConcurrentBag

The ConcurrentBag<T> is an unordered collection of objects that can be safely added, peeked at, or removed concurrently. Keep in mind that, as with all of the concurrent collections, the methods exposed by ConcurrentBag<T> are thread-safe, but any extension methods are not guaranteed to be safe. Always implement your own synchronization when leveraging them. To review a list of safe methods, you can review this Microsoft Docs page: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.collections.concurrent.concurrentbag-1#methods.

We are going to create a sample application that simulates working with a pool of objects. This scenario can be useful if you have some processing that leverages a stateful object that is memory-intensive. You want to minimize the number of objects created but cannot reuse one until the previous iteration has finished using it and returned it to the pool.

In our example, we will use a mocked-up PDF processing class that is assumed...