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Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6

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Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243672
Pages 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer and developer community champion with over 25 years of experience in software development. Working primarily with Microsoft Windows, web, and cloud technologies, his career has focused primarily on the healthcare industry. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP 11 times, most recently as a Windows Dev MVP. Alvin works in the Philadelphia area for Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, as a principal software engineer. He is also a board member of the TechBash Foundation, where he helps organize the annual TechBash developer conference. He has previously worked for companies such as Oracle, Genzeon, CSC, and ITG Pathfinders. Originally from the Allentown, PA area, Alvin currently resides in West Grove, PA with his wife and three daughters.
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Introduction to Threading in .NET
2. Chapter 1: Managed Threading Concepts 3. Chapter 2: Evolution of Multithreaded Programming in .NET 4. Chapter 3: Best Practices for Managed Threading 5. Chapter 4: User Interface Responsiveness and Threading 6. Part 2: Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C#
7. Chapter 5: Asynchronous Programming with C# 8. Chapter 6: Parallel Programming Concepts 9. Chapter 7: Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Dataflow 10. Chapter 8: Parallel Data Structures and Parallel LINQ 11. Chapter 9: Working with Concurrent Collections in .NET 12. Part 3: Advanced Concurrency Concepts
13. Chapter 10: Debugging Multithreaded Applications with Visual Studio 14. Chapter 11: Canceling Asynchronous Work 15. Chapter 12: Unit Testing Async, Concurrent, and Parallel Code 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing the TPL Dataflow library

The TPL Dataflow library has been available for as long as TPL itself. It was released in 2010 after .NET Framework 4.0 reached its RTM milestone. The members of the dataflow library are part of the System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow namespace. The dataflow library is intended to build on the basics of parallel programming that are provided in TPL, expanding to address data flow scenarios (hence the name of the library). The dataflow library is made up of foundational classes called blocks. Each data flow block is responsible for a particular action or step in the overall flow.

The dataflow library consists of three basic types of blocks:

  • Source blocks: These blocks implement the ISourceBlock<TOutput> interface. Source blocks can have their data read from the workflow you define.
  • Target blocks: This type of block implements the ITargetBlock<TInput> interface and is a data receiver.
  • Propagator blocks: These blocks act...
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Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer and developer community champion with over 25 years of experience in software development. Working primarily with Microsoft Windows, web, and cloud technologies, his career has focused primarily on the healthcare industry. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP 11 times, most recently as a Windows Dev MVP. Alvin works in the Philadelphia area for Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, as a principal software engineer. He is also a board member of the TechBash Foundation, where he helps organize the annual TechBash developer conference. He has previously worked for companies such as Oracle, Genzeon, CSC, and ITG Pathfinders. Originally from the Allentown, PA area, Alvin currently resides in West Grove, PA with his wife and three daughters.
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