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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

Safely disposing of unmanaged code

When working with unmanaged resources, you must explicitly dispose of them yourself to free up resources. If you do not, then you may end up with exceptions being raised or, worse, your application completely crashing. You must make sure that your applications don't continue running and supplying wrong data when exceptions are encountered. Should exceptions be encountered where the data would become invalid if the application were to continue, then it is better to exit the program. You must also make sure that if your application encounters a catastrophic exception that it is unable to recover from, either a message is displayed or some kind of logging takes place before it shuts down.

In C#, there are two ways to dispose of unmanaged resources: using the disposable pattern and using finalizers. We will discuss both methods in this section via code examples.

Understanding C# finalization

A finalizer is a destructor in C# and is used...

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