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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789132410

Length 346 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Parallel Programming

Author (1):

Shakti Tanwar

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

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How to wait on running tasks

In the previous examples, we called the Task.Result property to get a result from a completed task. This blocks the calling thread until a result is available. TPL provides another way for us to wait on one or more tasks.

There are various APIs available in TPL so that we can wait on one or more tasks. These are as follows:

Task.Wait
Task.WaitAll
Task.WaitAny
Task.WhenAll
Task.WhenAny

These APIs will be defined in the following subsections.

Task.Wait

This is an instance method that can be used to wait on a single task. We can specify the maximum amount of time for which the caller will wait for the task to complete before unblocking itself with a timeout exception. We can also have full control...

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Authors (1)

Tanwar

Shakti Tanwar is the CEO of Techpro Compsoft Pvt Ltd, a global provider of consulting in information technology services. He is a technical evangelist and software architect with more than 15 years of experience in software development and corporate training. Shakti is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and has been conducting training in association with Microsoft in the Middle East. His areas of expertise include .NET; Azure Machine Learning; artificial intelligence; applications of pure functional programming to build fault-tolerant, reactive systems; and parallel computing. His love for teaching led him to start a special "train the professors" program for the betterment of colleges in India.

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