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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

Unit testing parallel code

Creating unit tests for code that use Parallel.Invoke, Parallel.For, Parallel.ForEach, and Parallel.ForEachAsync is relatively straightforward. While they can run processes in parallel when conditions are suitable, they run synchronously relative to the invoking code. Unless you wrap Parallel.ForEach in a Task.Run statement, the flow of code will not continue until all iterations of the loop have been completed.

The one caveat to consider when testing code that uses parallel loops is the type of exceptions to expect. If an exception is thrown within the body of one of these constructs, the surrounding code must catch AggregateException. The exception to this Exception rule is Parallel.ForEachAsync. Because it is called with async/await, you must handle Exception instead of AggregateException. Let’s create an example to illustrate these scenarios:

  1. Create a new Class Library project in Visual Studio named ParallelExample.
  2. Rename Class1...