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Apps and Services with .NET 8

You're reading from   Apps and Services with .NET 8 Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637133
Length 798 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Apps and Services with .NET 2. Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Entity Models for SQL Server Using EF Core 4. Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB 5. Multitasking and Concurrency 6. Using Popular Third-Party Libraries 7. Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization 8. Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs 9. Caching, Queuing, and Resilient Background Services 10. Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions 11. Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR 12. Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL 13. Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC 14. Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core 15. Building Web Components Using Blazor 16. Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI 17. Epilogue 18. Index

Understanding processes, threads, and tasks

A process, with one example being each of the console applications we have created, has resources like memory and threads allocated to it.

A thread executes your code statement by statement. By default, each process only has one thread, and this can cause problems when we need to do more than one task at the same time. Threads are also responsible for keeping track of things like the currently authenticated user and any internationalization rules that should be followed for the current language and region.

Windows and most other modern operating systems use preemptive multitasking, which simulates the parallel execution of tasks. It divides the processor time among the threads, allocating a time slice to each thread one after another. The current thread is suspended when its time slice finishes. The processor then allows another thread to run for a time slice.

When Windows switches from one thread to another, it saves the context...

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