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C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0

You're reading from C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0 Modern Cross-Platform Development

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785285691

Length 550 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

.NET Core

Concepts

Programming Language

Table of Contents (25) Chapters

C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET Core! FREE CHAPTER

2. Speaking C#

3. Controlling the Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions

4. Using Common .NET Types

5. Using Specialized .NET Types

6. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

7. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

8. Working with Relational Data Using the Entity Framework

9. Querying and Manipulating Data with LINQ

10. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

11. Protecting Your Data and Applications

12. Improving Performance and Scalability with Multitasking

13. Building Universal Windows Platform Apps Using XAML

14. Building Web Applications and Services Using ASP.NET Core

15. Taking C# Cross-Platform

16. Building a Quiz

Answers to the Test Your Knowledge Questions

Creating a Virtual Machine for Your Development Environment

Index

Chapter 12. Improving Performance and Scalability with Multitasking

This chapter is about allowing multiple actions to occur at the same time to improve performance, scalability, and user productivity.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Understanding processes and threads
Running tasks asynchronously
The async and await keywords
Synchronizing access to shared resources

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