Async Programming in C#

Introduction

• Introduction
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Background

• What is asynchronous?
• Unit tests
• Delegates
• Anonymous methods and lambdas

2. I/O

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

3. Windows Forms

• Perceived performance
• Windows Forms BackgroundWorker

4. Hard Multithreading

• Threads
• Thread safety
• Keyword: lock
• Thread pool
• Signaling

5. Less Hard Multithreading

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

6. async and await

• Keywords: async and await
• From Task to async and await
• Error handling

7. Concurrent Collections

• SharedState
• ConcurrentQueue
• ConcurrentDictionary
• BlockingCollection

Conclusion

• Next Steps