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Microsoft® Visual C#® 2012 Step by Step
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Microsoft® Visual C#® 2012 Step by Step

by John Sharp
December 2012
Beginner to intermediate
844 pages
25h 38m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 23. Improving Throughput by Using Tasks

After completing the chapter, you will be able to

  • Describe the benefits that implementing parallel operations in an application can bring.

  • Use the Task class to create and run parallel operations in an application.

  • Use the Parallel class to parallelize some common programming constructs.

  • Cancel long-running tasks and handle exceptions raised by parallel operations.

In the bulk of the preceding chapters in this book, you learned how to use C# to write programs that run in a single-threaded manner. By single-threaded, I mean that at any one point in time, a program has been executing a single instruction. This might not always be the most efficient approach for an application to take. Applications that ...

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