You're reading from Learn C# Programming A guide to building a solid foundation in C# language for writing efficient programs

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789805864

Length 636 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (4):

Raffaele Rialdi

Ankit Sharma

Prakash Tripathi

Marius Bancila

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Starting with the Building Blocks of C#

2. Chapter 2: Data Types and Operators FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Control Statements and Exceptions

4. Chapter 4: Understanding the Various User-Defined Types

5. Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Programming in C#

6. Chapter 6: Generics

7. Chapter 7: Collections

8. Chapter 8: Advanced Topics

9. Chapter 9: Resource Management

10. Chapter 10: Lambdas, LINQ, and Functional Programming

11. Chapter 11: Reflection and Dynamic Programming

12. Chapter 12: Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming

13. Chapter 13: Files, Streams, and Serialization

14. Chapter 14: Error Handling

15. Chapter 15: New Features of C# 8

16. Chapter 16: C# in Action with .NET Core 3

17. Chapter 17: Unit Testing

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Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the most important tools that any developer can use to take advantage of the multithreading and asynchronous programming techniques.

The building blocks are the fundamental abstractions that allow code to run in a different execution context, regardless of the OS they are currently running on. Those primitives must be used with wisdom, but that doesn't limit the developer's possibilities in any way compared to native languages and libraries.

In addition to this, the task paradigm offers a natural approach when it comes to interacting with all those events whose nature is asynchronous. The System.Threading.Tasks namespace provides all the required abstractions to interact with asynchronous phenomena.

The library has been widely restructured and widened to support the task paradigm. And most importantly, the language offers the async and await keywords to break down the complexity and make the asynchronous world flow as if it...