Mastering C# concurrency : create robust and scalable applications, along with responsive UI, using concurrency and the multi-threading infrastructure in .NET and C# /
Create robust and scalable applications along with responsive UI using concurrency and the multi-threading infrastructure in .NET and C# About This Book Learn to combine your asynchronous operations with Task Parallel Library Master C#'s asynchronous infrastructure and use asynchronous APIs eff...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt Publishing,
2015.
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| Series: | Professional expertise distilled.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Traditional Concurrency; What's the problem?; Using locks; Lock statement; Monitor class; Reader-writer lock; Spin lock; Thread. SpinWait; System. Threading. SpinWait; System. Threading. SpinLock; Optimization strategy; Lock localization; Shared data minimization; Summary; Chapter 2: Lock-free Concurrency; Memory model and compiler optimizations; The System. Threading. Interlocked class; Interlocked internals; Writing lock-free code; The ABA problem; The lock-free stack.
- The lock-free queueSummary; Chapter 3: Understanding Parallelism Granularity; The number of threads; Using the thread pool; Understanding granularity; Choosing the coarse-grained or fine-grained approach; Summary; Chapter 4: Task Parallel Library in Depth; Task composition; Tasks hierarchy; Awaiting task completion; Task cancellation; Checking a flag; Throwing an exception; Using OS wait objects with WaitHandle; Cancellation using callbacks; Latency and the coarse-grained approach with TPL; Exception handling; Using the Parallel class; Parallel. Invoke; Parallel. For and Parallel. Foreach.
- Understanding the task schedulerSummary; Chapter 5: C# Language Support for Asynchrony; Implementing the downloading of images from Bing; Creating a simple synchronous solution; Creating a parallel solution with Task Parallel Library; Enhancing the code with C# 5.0 built-in support for asynchrony; Simulating C# asynchronous infrastructure with iterators; Is the async keyword really needed?; Fire-and-forget tasks; Other useful TPL features; Task. Delay; Task. Yield; Implementing a custom awaitable type; Summary; Chapter 6: Using Concurrent Data Structures.
- Standard collections and synchronization primitivesImplementing a cache with ReaderWriterLockSlim; Concurrent collections in .NET; ConcurrentDictionary; Using Lazy; Implementation details; Lock-free operations; Fine-grained lock operations; Exclusive lock operations; Using the implementation details in practice; ConcurrentBag; ConcurrentBag in practice; ConcurrentQueue; ConcurrentStack; The Producer/Consumer pattern; Custom Producer/Consumer pattern implementation; The Producer/Consumer pattern in .NET 4.0+; Summary; Chapter 7: Leveraging Parallel Patterns; Concurrent idioms.
- Process Tasks in Completion OrderLimiting the parallelism degree; Setting a task timeout; Asynchronous patterns; Asynchronous Programming Model; Event-based Asynchronous Pattern; Task-based Asynchronous Pattern; Concurrent patterns; Parallel pipelines; Summary; Chapter 8: Server-side Asynchrony; Server applications; The OWIN Web API framework; Load testing and scalability; I/O and CPU-bound tasks; Deep dive into asynchronous I/O; Real and fake asynchronous I/O operations; Synchronization context; CPU-bound tasks and queues; Summary; Chapter 9: Concurrency in the User Interface.
