You're reading from Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6

Product type Book

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243672

Pages 320 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Parallel Programming

Author (1):

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

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To get the most out of this book

To follow along with the examples in this book, the following software is recommended for Windows developers:

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 or later
.NET 6

While these are recommended, if you have the .NET 6 SDK installed, you can use your preferred editor for most of the examples. For example, Visual Studio 2022 for Mac on macOS 10.13 or later, JetBrains Rider, or Visual Studio Code will work just as well. However, for any WPF or WinForms projects, Visual Studio and Windows are required. Newer versions of Visual Studio and .NET, when they are released, should also work with the examples in this book.

You are expected to have a foundational knowledge of C# and .NET with a working knowledge of Language Integrated Query (LINQ).

The most recent Visual Studio 2022 install instructions and prerequisites can always be found on Microsoft Docs here: https://docs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/install/install-visual-studio?view=vs-2022.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

If you are unfamiliar with LINQ, there is a great C# reference on Microsoft Docs to get you started before working through the examples in this book: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/concepts/linq/.

After reading this book, I would also recommend exploring the posts on the .NET Parallel Programming team blog. Most of the articles are several years old, but they explore the thinking behind many of the decisions made when building the .NET libraries that expose parallel programming constructs: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pfxteam/.