Multithreading with C# Cookbook, Second Edition

Over 70 recipes to get you writing powerful and efficient multithreaded, asynchronous, and parallel programs in C# 6.0

Key Features

• Rewritten and updated to take advantage of the latest C# 6 features
• Learn about multithreaded, asynchronous, and parallel programming through hands-on, code-first examples
• Use these recipes to build fast, scalable, and reliable applications in C#

Book Description

What you will learn

• Use C# 6.0 asynchronous language features
• Work with raw threads, synchronize threads, and coordinate their work
• Develop your own asynchronous API with Task Parallel Library
• Work effectively with a thread pool
• Scale up your server application with I/O threads
• Parallelize your LINQ queries with PLINQ
• Use common concurrent collections
• Apply different parallel programming patterns
• Use Reactive Extensions to run asynchronous operations and manage their options

Who this book is for

This book is aimed at those who are new to multithreaded programming, and who are looking for a quick and easy way to get started. It is assumed that you have some experience in C# and .NET already, and you should also be familiar with basic computer science terminology and basic algorithms and data structures.