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Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789132410
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shakti Tanwar Shakti Tanwar
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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

How to debug threads

When working with multiple threads, it becomes important to find out which thread is executing at a particular time. This allows us to troubleshoot cross-threading issues as well as race conditions. Using the Threads window, we can check and work with threads while debugging. When you hit a breakpoint while debugging code in Visual Studio IDE, the thread window provides a table with each row containing information about active threads.

Now, let's explore how to debug threads using Visual Studio:

  1. Let's write the following code in Visual Studio:
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) 
{
Task task = new TaskFactory().StartNew(() =>
{
Console.WriteLine($"Thread with Id
{Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId}");
});
}
  1. Create a breakpoint by pressing...
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