If you need to understand concurrency, this book is your guide to the fundamentals behind the advanced software you seek to implement to achieve highly responsive and scalable code. Support for parallel computation is an essential part of concurrency. Concurrency is an advanced concept and solutions are not straightforward. Many developers have been burned by it and are still being burned by it. This book aims to simplify the concept for C# developers. It tries to simplify the concept using the Task Parallel Library (TPL), Concurrent Collections, Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), Asynchronous Programming Patterns, and related topics.

The book starts with an overview of TPL and discusses Tasks. Understanding these areas is necessary to learn the concepts that follow in the book. You will go through special scenarios, such as handling exceptions and cancellations, followed by demonstrations of synchronization techniques and concurrent collections. You will see demonstrations of parallel loops to speed up the computations. And you'll understand PLINQ in detail. Finally, you'll learn how to simplify asynchronous programming with async and await keywords is discussed.

The book contains “Q&A sessions”, review questions, and exercises (in .NET 8 and C#12). After reading the book, you will be able to understand advanced concepts in parallel programming and implement them in your code.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Understanding Tasks

Chapter 2: Handling Special Scenarios

Chapter 3: Exploring Synchronization and Concurrent Collections

Chapter 4: Working on Parallel Loops

Chapter 5: Parallel LINQ

Chapter 6: Simplifying Asynchronous Programming

About the Author

Vaskaran Sarcar is an Indian author, formerly employed at HP India PPS R&D Hub,Bangalore. He holds a M.E. in Software Engineering from Jadavpur University, a MCA from Vidyasagar University, and a B.Sc (Math) from Presidency University(formerly Presidency College). He is also a National Gate Scholar (2007-2009), and has more than 12 years of experience in Education and the IT industry.

Vaskaran devoted his early years (2005-2007) to teaching at various engineering colleges, and later he joined HP India PPS R&D Hub Bangalore.After working more than 10 years at HP, on August 12, 2019, Vaskaran announced that he would be leaving HP. At the time of his retirement from HP, he was a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at HP. To follow his dream and passion, Vaskaran is now a full-time author. His "off-line" interests include spending quality time with his family and reading books that aren't about software!