Async Programming in C#

3h 36mBeginner2017-10-05

Authors

Anton Delsink

Programmer, Teacher

Course details

Discover how to improve the scalability and performance of your applications using asynchronous programming in C#. In this course, join Anton Delsink as he explores different options for parallelizing your code, and shows how asynchronous programming is done with C#. Anton covers key concepts, including unit tests, delegates, lambdas, and anonymous methods. He also covers multithreading, async keywords, tasks, and more.

Learning objectives
What is asynchronous?
Delegates
Blocking vs. nonblocking I/O
Async database queries with begin/end
Windows Forms BackgroundWorker
Threads
Async networking with Tasks
Async database queries with Tasks
C# keywords async and await

Skills covered

C#Programming LanguagesMicrosoftSoftware DevelopmentDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

Introduction
What you should know
Using the exercise files

Background

What is asynchronous
Unit tests
Delegates
Anonymous methods and lambdas

I O

Blocking vs. nonblocking I O
Async networking with begin end
Async database queries with begin end

Windows Forms

Perceived performance
Windows Forms BackgroundWorker

Hard Multithreading

Threads
Thread safety
Keyword - lock
Thread pool
Signaling

Less Hard Multithreading

Tasks
Class task
Async networking with tasks
Async database queries with tasks
Task Parallel Library

async and await

Keywords - async and await
From Task to async and await
Error handling

Concurrent Collections

SharedState
ConcurrentQueue
ConcurrentDictionary
BlockingCollection

Conclusion

Next Steps