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High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET

You're reading from   High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET Understand the nuts and bolts of developing robust, faster, and resilient applications in C# 10.0 and .NET 6

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800564718
Length 660 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: High-Performance Code Foundation
2. Chapter 1: Introducing C# 10.0 and .NET 6 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Implementing C# Interoperability 4. Chapter 3: Predefined Data Types and Memory Allocations 5. Chapter 4: Memory Management 6. Chapter 5: Application Profiling and Tracing 7. Part 2: Writing High-Performance Code
8. Chapter 6: The .NET Collections 9. Chapter 7: LINQ Performance 10. Chapter 8: File and Stream I/O 11. Chapter 9: Enhancing the Performance of Networked Applications 12. Chapter 10: Setting Up Our Database Project 13. Chapter 11: Benchmarking Relational Data Access Frameworks 14. Chapter 12: Responsive User Interfaces 15. Chapter 13: Distributed Systems 16. Part 3: Threading and Concurrency
17. Chapter 14: Multi-Threaded Programming 18. Chapter 15: Parallel Programming 19. Chapter 16: Asynchronous Programming 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reading files asynchronously

In this section, we will read text from a file asynchronously. We will be building upon the code from the previous section that writes the text to a file asynchronously.

The following steps will add our asynchronous read method and update the Program.cs file to run our asynchronous code:

  1. In the FileReadWriteAsync class, add the following method:
    public static async Task<string> ReadTextAsync()
    {
         string filePath = @"C:\Temp\Greetings.txt";
         using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(
                 filePath,
                   FileMode.Open, 
                   FileAccess.Read, 
                   FileShare.Read...
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