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Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6

You're reading from   Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C#

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243672
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1:Introduction to Threading in .NET
2. Chapter 1: Managed Threading Concepts FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Evolution of Multithreaded Programming in .NET 4. Chapter 3: Best Practices for Managed Threading 5. Chapter 4: User Interface Responsiveness and Threading 6. Part 2: Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C#
7. Chapter 5: Asynchronous Programming with C# 8. Chapter 6: Parallel Programming Concepts 9. Chapter 7: Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Dataflow 10. Chapter 8: Parallel Data Structures and Parallel LINQ 11. Chapter 9: Working with Concurrent Collections in .NET 12. Part 3: Advanced Concurrency Concepts
13. Chapter 10: Debugging Multithreaded Applications with Visual Studio 14. Chapter 11: Canceling Asynchronous Work 15. Chapter 12: Unit Testing Async, Concurrent, and Parallel Code 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Canceling managed threads

Canceling asynchronous work in .NET is based on the use of a cancellation token. A token is a simple object that is used to signal that a cancellation request has been made to another thread. The CancellationTokenSource object manages these requests and contains a token. If you want to cancel several operations with the same trigger, the same token should be provided to all of the threads to be canceled.

A CancellationTokenSource instance has a Token property to access the CancellationToken property and pass it to one or more asynchronous operations. The request to cancel can only be made from the CancellationTokenSource object. The CancellationToken property provided to the other operations receives the signal to cancel but cannot initiate a cancellation.

CancellationTokenSource implements the IDisposable interface, so be sure to call Dispose when you are freeing your managed resources. A using statement or block to automatically dispose of the token...

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