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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

Chapter 1: Managed Threading Concepts

Parallel programming and concurrency are becoming more prevalent in modern .NET development. Most developers today have been exposed to asynchronous programming with the async and await keywords in C#. This book will cover all of these concepts in the chapters ahead.

In this chapter, we will start with the basics of how to work with managed threading in .NET. You will learn how to create and destroy threads, handle exceptions, synchronize data, and utilize the objects provided by .NET to handle background operations. Additionally, you will gain a basic understanding of how threads can be managed in a .NET application. The practical examples in this chapter will illustrate how to leverage managed threading in C# projects.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • .NET threading basics
  • Creating and destroying threads
  • Handling threading exceptions
  • Synchronizing data across threads
  • Scheduling and canceling work

By starting with the core concepts of threading in .NET, you will gain a solid foundation as you move forward with your learning throughout this book. It is important to understand the basics to prevent common mistakes from being made while introducing threading and asynchrony to .NET applications. It is all too easy to exhaust resources or put the application’s data in an invalid state. Let’s get started with managed threading with C#.