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Multithreading in C# 5.0 Cookbook

By : Evgenii Agafonov
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Multithreading in C# 5.0 Cookbook

By: Evgenii Agafonov

Overview of this book

In an age when computer processors are being developed to contain more and more cores, multithreading is a key factor for creating scalable, effective, and responsive applications. If you fail to do it correctly, it can lead to puzzling problems that take a huge amount of time to resolve. Therefore, having a solid understanding of multithreading is a must for the modern application developer. Multithreading in C# 5.0 Cookbook is an easy-to-understand guide to the most puzzling programming problems. This book will guide you through practical examples dedicated to various aspects of multithreading in C# on Windows and will give you a good basis of practical knowledge which you can then use to program your own scalable and reliable multithreaded applications. This book guides you through asynchronous and parallel programming from basic examples to practical, real-world solutions to complex problems. You will start from the very beginning, learning what a thread is, and then proceed to learn new concepts based on the information you get from the previous examples. After describing the basics of threading, you will be able to grasp more advanced concepts like Task Parallel Library and C# asynchronous functions. Then, we move towards parallel programming, starting with basic data structures and gradually progressing to the more advanced patterns. The book concludes with a discussion of the specifics of Windows 8 application programming, giving you a complete understanding of how Windows 8 applications are different and how to program asynchronous applications for Windows 8.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Multithreading in C# 5.0 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Microsoft released the first public beta build of Windows 8 at the BUILD conference on September 13, 2011. The new OS tried to address almost every problem that Windows had by introducing features such as responsive UI suitable for tablet devices with touch, lower power consumption, new application model, new asynchronous APIs, and tighter security.

The core of Windows API improvements was a new multiplatform component system, WinRT, which is a logical development of COM. With WinRT, a programmer can use native C++ code, C# and .NET, and even JavaScript and HTML to develop applications. Another change is the introduction of a centralized application store, which did not exist on the Windows platform before.

Being a new application platform, Windows 8 had backward-compatibility and allowed to run the usual Windows applications. This lead to a situation where there are two major classes of applications: the Windows Store applications, where new programs are distributed via the Windows...