Master parallelism and async to create enterprise-grade, high-performance apps.
Key Features
● Unlock advanced multithreading, async, and parallelism in C#.
● Master tools to debug, profile, and crush performance issues.
● Build real-world, production-ready apps that scale effortlessly.
Book Description
High-performance software is no longer optional-today's applications must be fast, scalable, and responsive to meet real-world demands. C# and .NET provides the foundation, but knowing how to unlock their full potential is what separates the average code from enterprise-grade solutions.
Ultimate C# for High-Performance Applications guides you step by step from core concepts to advanced techniques, building both confidence and mastery, along the way. Through this book, you will dive into multithreading, asynchronous programming, and concurrent collections; accelerate workloads with parallel loops and PLINQ; and learn to fine-tune task scheduling, optimize thread pool usage, and apply proven patterns for reliable and scalable software. Through hands-on exercises, profiling strategies, and a complete real-world case study, you will gain the skills to design, build, and refine applications that remain fast, stable, and efficient-even under heavy demand!
Thus, by the end of the book, you would have transformed your development approach-moving from functional code to engineering high-performance solutions that scale with ease. So, if you are ready to push your C# skills further, and deliver software that does not just work but excels, this book is your roadmap.
What you will learn
● Master advanced multithreading techniques to supercharge application performance and unlock true parallel execution across processors.
● Harness asynchronous programming with async/await to build responsive, scalable, and user-friendly .NET applications.
● Use concurrent collections and synchronization primitives to manage shared data safely, and eliminate race conditions.
● Profile, debug, and optimize performance bottlenecks with proven tools and strategies to deliver consistently fast applications.
● Apply real-world patterns for building reliable and scalable software that meets production demands under heavy workloads.
● Transform ordinary C# code into high-performance solutions ready for enterprise-scale, mission-critical environments.
● Build and deploy a complete high-performance chat application.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to High-Performance Computing in .NET
2. Understanding Parallelism in C#
3. Creating and Running Tasks in C#
4. Data Sharing and Synchronization
5. Threading and Synchronization Primitives
6. Understanding Concurrent Collections
7. Parallel Loops in .NET
8. Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) for Parallelism
9. Advanced Task Management
10. Asynchronous Programming with Async/Await
11. Threading and the Thread Pool
12. Debugging Parallel Applications Using Visual Studio
13. Practical Performance Challenges and Solutions
14. Building a Chat Application
15. Conclusion
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