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Learn C# Programming

You're reading from   Learn C# Programming A guide to building a solid foundation in C# language for writing efficient programs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789805864
Length 636 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Raffaele Rialdi Raffaele Rialdi
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Ankit Sharma Ankit Sharma
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Prakash Tripathi Prakash Tripathi
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Marius Bancila Marius Bancila
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Starting with the Building Blocks of C# 2. Chapter 2: Data Types and Operators FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Control Statements and Exceptions 4. Chapter 4: Understanding the Various User-Defined Types 5. Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Programming in C# 6. Chapter 6: Generics 7. Chapter 7: Collections 8. Chapter 8: Advanced Topics 9. Chapter 9: Resource Management 10. Chapter 10: Lambdas, LINQ, and Functional Programming 11. Chapter 11: Reflection and Dynamic Programming 12. Chapter 12: Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming 13. Chapter 13: Files, Streams, and Serialization 14. Chapter 14: Error Handling 15. Chapter 15: New Features of C# 8 16. Chapter 16: C# in Action with .NET Core 3 17. Chapter 17: Unit Testing 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Test what you learned

  1. If you have a very CPU-intensive, long-lasting algorithm to run, which strategy out of manual thread creation, using the task library, or using the thread pool would you adopt?
  2. Name a performant synchronization technique that can be used to write a file and increase an integer value in memory.
  3. What method should you use to pause the execution for 100 milliseconds, and why?
  4. What should you do to wait for the results produced by multiple asynchronous operations?
  5. How can you create a task to await a CLR event?
  6. What should you return from a method that has Task in the signature but does not use any asynchronous method?
  7. How can you create a long-running task?
  8. A button-click handler is making asynchronous access to the internet to load some data. Should you use Control.Invoke to update the results on screen? Why?
  9. What are the reasons for evaluating the use of the ConfigureAwait method on a Task?
  10. Can you update the UI directly...
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