In this chapter, we further built on the foundations from which all network programming in C# is supported. We learned about how .NET encapsulates the basic physical concept of a physical stream of incoming or outgoing bits into an elegantly simple and broadly useful Stream class. Then we looked at the best patterns for working with Stream through the StreamWriter and StreamReader wrapper classes. To facilitate the ease with which we could transmit data through those classes, we got our first look at the incredible power of JSON, and the Newtonsoft.Json library.
Once we got data streams firmly under our belt, we looked at how to optimize working with them. We talked about the power of multithreading, and what that can mean for performance improvements with long-running tasks and operations. Finally, we took a crash course in asynchronous programming. Learning about how...
