Pro C# 9 with .NET 5: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming

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A. Troelsen, P. JapiksePro C# 9 with .NET 5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6939-8_15

15. Multithreaded, Parallel, and Async Programming

Andrew Troelsen¹   and Phillip Japikse²

(1)

Minneapolis, MN, USA

(2)

West Chester, OH, USA

 

Nobody enjoys working with an application that is sluggish during its execution. Moreover, nobody enjoys starting a task in an application (perhaps initiated by clicking a toolbar item) that prevents other parts of the program from being as responsive as possible. Before the release of .NET (and .NET Core), building applications that had the ability to perform multiple tasks typically required authoring complex C++ code that used the ...