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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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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

Testing tools

One of the most important tools in Visual Studio to run a test or see the results of test execution is Test Explorer. We had a brief look at Test Explorer at the start of this chapter. One key feature of Test Explorer is its ability to run test cases in parallel. If you have a system with multiple cores, you can easily take advantage of parallelism to run test cases faster. This can be done by clicking on the Run Tests in parallel toolbar button in Test Explorer:

Depending on your version of Visual Studio, some additional support is provided by Microsoft. One useful tool is the option to generate unit test cases automatically using Intellitest. Intellitest analyzes your source code and automatically generates test cases, test data, and test suites. Intellitest isn't supported in .NET core yet, though it's available for other versions of the .NET Framework...

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