You're reading from High-Performance Programming in C# and .NET Understand the nuts and bolts of developing robust, faster, and resilient applications in C# 10.0 and .NET 6

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800564718

Length 660 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

High Performance Programming

Author (1):

Jason Alls

Preface

1. Part 1: High-Performance Code Foundation

2. Chapter 1: Introducing C# 10.0 and .NET 6 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Implementing C# Interoperability

4. Chapter 3: Predefined Data Types and Memory Allocations

5. Chapter 4: Memory Management

6. Chapter 5: Application Profiling and Tracing

7. Part 2: Writing High-Performance Code

8. Chapter 6: The .NET Collections

9. Chapter 7: LINQ Performance

10. Chapter 8: File and Stream I/O

11. Chapter 9: Enhancing the Performance of Networked Applications

12. Chapter 10: Setting Up Our Database Project

13. Chapter 11: Benchmarking Relational Data Access Frameworks

14. Chapter 12: Responsive User Interfaces

15. Chapter 13: Distributed Systems

16. Part 3: Threading and Concurrency

17. Chapter 14: Multi-Threaded Programming

18. Chapter 15: Parallel Programming

19. Chapter 16: Asynchronous Programming

20. Assessments

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Questions and exercises

Answer the following questions regarding this chapter:

What areas of .NET are being improved by .NET 6?
What is new to C# 10.0?
What tools are available for native compilation in .NET?
How can you improve the Windows Store app's performance?
How can you speed up ASP.NET?
Investigate the state of .NET MAUI, the future of frontend desktop and mobile development that is still undergoing development.
Write some console applications and practice using the new features of .NET 6 and C# 10.0.
Use Benchmark.NET to benchmark one of your small applications, and then upgrade it to use .NET 6 and C# 10.0. Measure its performance without making any changes if possible, and then measure its performance again. See if you notice any performance improvements by simply upgrading to C# 10.0 and .NET 6.
Note
The answers to questions 4 and 5 can be found in the external reference sources provided in their respective sections.