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Mastering C# and .NET Framework

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Mastering C# and .NET Framework

Overview of this book

Mastering C# and .NET Framework will take you in to the depths of C# 6.0/7.0 and .NET 4.6, so you can understand how the platform works when it runs your code, and how you can use this knowledge to write efficient applications. Take full advantage of the new revolution in .NET development, including open source status and cross-platform capability, and get to grips with the architectural changes of CoreCLR. Start with how the CLR executes code, and discover the niche and advanced aspects of C# programming – from delegates and generics, through to asynchronous programming. Run through new forms of type declarations and assignments, source code callers, static using syntax, auto-property initializers, dictionary initializers, null conditional operators, and many others. Then unlock the true potential of the .NET platform. Learn how to write OWASP-compliant applications, how to properly implement design patterns in C#, and how to follow the general SOLID principles and its implementations in C# code. We finish by focusing on tips and tricks that you'll need to get the most from C# and .NET. This book also covers .NET Core 1.1 concepts as per the latest RTM release in the last chapter.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering C# and .NET Framework
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics

In Chapter 12, Performance, we studied application's performance under several points of view and analyzed some of the most meaningful tools at our disposal in order to improve our software's response time.

This chapter covers advanced concepts, mainly related to three areas. So, you can consider it a miscellaneous chapter, addressing several topics that either do not fit directly within the context of any of the preceding chapters or are too new, such as what happens with .NET Core.

Specifically, I will cover how an application can receive system's calls in its own functions and also explain how our code can integrate and communicate with the OS using its APIs.

Another topic we will cover is Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and how it allows the developer to access and modify critical aspects of the system, which are sometimes difficult to reach in other approaches.

We'll also cover parallelism, analyzing some myths and misunderstandings of these topics...