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

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction
02 - What you should know
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Background

04 - What is asynchronous
05 - Unit tests
06 - Delegates
07 - Anonymous methods and lambdas

2. I O

08 - Blocking vs. nonblocking I O
09 - Async networking with begin end
10 - Async database queries with begin end

3. Windows Forms

11 - Perceived performance
12 - Windows Forms BackgroundWorker

4. Hard Multithreading

13 - Threads
14 - Thread safety
15 - Keyword - lock
16 - Thread pool
17 - Signaling

5. Less Hard Multithreading

18 - Tasks
19 - Class task
20 - Async networking with tasks
21 - Async database queries with tasks
22 - Task Parallel Library

6. async and await

23 - Keywords - async and await
24 - From Task to async and await
25 - Error handling

7. Concurrent Collections

26 - SharedState
27 - ConcurrentQueue
28 - ConcurrentDictionary
29 - BlockingCollection

Conclusion

30 - Next Steps