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Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

You're reading from   Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Build solid enterprise software using task parallelism and multithreading

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789132410
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shakti Tanwar Shakti Tanwar
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Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamentals of Threading, Multitasking, and Asynchrony FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to Parallel Programming 3. Task Parallelism 4. Implementing Data Parallelism 5. Using PLINQ 6. Section 2: Data Structures that Support Parallelism in .NET Core
7. Synchronization Primitives 8. Using Concurrent Collections 9. Improving Performance with Lazy Initialization 10. Section 3: Asynchronous Programming Using C#
11. Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 12. Async, Await, and Task-Based Asynchronous Programming Basics 13. Section 4: Debugging, Diagnostics, and Unit Testing for Async Code
14. Debugging Tasks Using Visual Studio 15. Writing Unit Test Cases for Parallel and Asynchronous Code 16. Section 5: Parallel Programming Feature Additions to .NET Core
17. IIS and Kestrel in ASP.NET Core 18. Patterns in Parallel Programming 19. Distributed Memory Management 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  1. What keyword is used to unblock a thread inside async methods?
    1. async
    2. await
    3. Thread.Sleep
    4. Task
  2. Which of the following are valid return types for async methods?
    1. void
    2. Task
    3. Task<T>
    4. IAsyncResult
  3. TaskCompletionSource<T> can be used to implement a task-based async pattern manually.
    1. True
    2. False
  1. Can we write Main methods as async?
    1. Yes
    2. No
  2. Which property of the Task class can be used to check whether an exception has been thrown by an async method?
    1. IsException
    2. IsFaulted
  3. We should always use void as a return type for async methods.
    1. True
    1. False
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