Improving your C# Skills

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Improving your C# Skills

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Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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What's New in .NET Core 2 and C# 7?

Evolution of .NET

New improvements in .NET Core 2.0

Performance improvements

RyuJIT compiler in .NET Core

Profile guided optimization

Simplified packaging

Upgrading path from .NET Core 1.x to 2.0

1. Install .NET Core 2.0

2. Upgrade TargetFramework

3. Update .NET Core SDK version

4. Update .NET Core CLI

Changes in ASP.NET Core Identity

Exploring .NET Core CLI and New Project Templates

Understanding .NET Standard

Versioning of .NET Standard

New improvements in .NET Standard 2.0

More APIs in .NET Standard 2.0

Compatibility mode

Creating a .NET Standard library

What comes with ASP.NET Core 2.0

ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

Automatic Page and View compilation on publishing

Razor support for C# 7.1

Simplified configuration for Application Insights

Pooling connections in Entity Framework Core 2.0

New features in C# 7.0

Tuples

Patterns

Constant pattern

Type pattern

Var pattern

Reference returns

Expression bodied member extended

Creating Local Functions

Out variables

Async Main

Writing quality code

Summary

Understanding .NET Core Internals and Measuring Performance

.NET Core internals

CoreFX

CoreCLR

Understanding MSIL CLI CTS and CLS

How the CLR works

From compilation to execution – Under the hood

Garbage collection

Generations in GC

.NET Native and JIT compilation

Utilizing multiple cores of the CPU for high performance

How releasing builds increases performance

Benchmarking .NET Core 2.0 applications

Exploring BenchmarkDotNet

How it works

Setting parameters

Memory diagnostics using BenchmarkDotnet

Adding configurations

Summary

Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming in .NET Core

Multithreading versus asynchronous programming

Multithreading in .NET Core

Multithreading caveats

Threads in .NET Core

Creating threads in .NET Core

Thread lifetime

The thread pool in .NET

Thread synchronization

Monitors

Task parallel library (TPL)

Creating a task using TPL

Task-based asynchronous pattern (TAP)

Naming convention

Return type

Parameters

Exceptions

Task status

Task cancellation

Task progress reporting

Implementing TAP using compilers

Implementing TAP with greater control over Task

Design patterns for parallel programming

Pipeline pattern