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

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243672
Pages 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Alvin Ashcraft Alvin Ashcraft
Profile icon Alvin Ashcraft

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

Creating a data pipeline with multiple blocks

One of the biggest advantages of using dataflow blocks is the ability to link them and create a complete workflow or data pipeline. In the previous section, we saw how this linking worked between producer and consumer blocks. In this section, we will create a console application with a pipeline of five dataflow blocks all linked together to complete a series of tasks. We will leverage TransformBlock, TransformManyBlock, and ActionBlock to take an RSS feed and output a list of categories that are unique across all blog posts in the feed. Follow these steps:

  1. Start by creating a new .NET 6 console application in Visual Studio named OutputBlogCategories.
  2. Add the System.ComponentModel.Syndication NuGet package that we used in the previous example.
  3. Add the same RssFeedService class from the previous example. You can right-click on the project in Solution Explorer and select Add | Existing Item or you can create a new class named...
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