Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET teaches the essential skill of asynchronous programming in .NET. It answers critical questions in .NET application development, such as: how do I keep my program responding at all times to keep my users happy? how do I make the most of the available hardware? how can I improve performance?In the modern world, users expect more and more from their applications and devices, and multi-core hardware has the potential to provide it. But it takes carefully crafted code to turn that potential into responsive, scalable applications.With Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET you will:Meet the underlying model for asynchrony on Windows-threads. Learn how to perform long blocking operations away from your UI thread to keep your UI responsive, then weave the results back in as seamlessly as possible. Master the async/await model of asynchrony in .NET, which makes asynchronous programming simpler and more achievable than ever before. Solve common problems in parallel programming with modern async techniques. Get under the hood of your asynchronous code with debugging techniques and insights from Visual Studio and beyond. In the past asynchronous programming was seen as an advanced skill. It's now a must for all modern developers. Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET is your practical guide to using this important programming skill anywhere on the .NET platform. What youll learnHow threads make asynchrony possible in .NET The costs and benefits of different synchronizationprimitives How to make the most of the async and awaitkeywords for easier management of asynchronous operations How to use an asynchronous model to scaleprocessing across multiple cores The different demands of IO and CPUbound processing Debugging multithreaded code effectively Who this book is for Pro AsynchronousProgramming with .NET is for the .NET developer who wants to get more outof the platform. Its for the UI developer who finds their applications feel unresponsive. Its for the server-side developer who is struggling to scaletheir systems. Its for the developer who is being given more data to processand less time to do it in. Pro AsynchronousProgramming with .NET is for people who want to solve problems but also understandhow and why the solutions work. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to Asynchronous ProgrammingChapter 2: The Evolution of the .NET Asynchronous APIChapter 3: TasksChapter 4: Basic Thread SafetyChapter 5: Concurrent Data Structures and PrimitivesChapter 6: Fast and Fluid: Building a Responsive UIChapter 7: Async the .NET 4.5 Way async and awaitChapter 8: Everything is a TaskChapter 9: Server-side AsyncChapter 10: Parallel ProgrammingChapter 11: Data Flow ConstructsChapter 12: Task schedulingChapter 13: Debugging Async with Visual StudioChapter 14: Debugging Async Beyond Visual Studio