Exam Ref 70-483: Programming in C#

Objective 1.1: Implement multithreading and asynchronous processing

Applications are becoming more and more complex as user expectations rise. To fully take advantage of multicore systems and stay responsive, you need to create applications that use multiple threads, often called parallelism.

The .NET Framework and the C# language offer a lot of options that you can use to create multithreaded applications.

This objective covers how to:

• Understand threads.

• Use the Task Parallel Library.

• Use the Parallel class.

• Use the new async and await keywords.

• Use Parallel Language Integrated Query.

• Use concurrent collections.

Understanding threads

Imagine that your computer has only one central processing unit (CPU) that is capable of executing only one operation at ...