Concurrency books — C# and .NET

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Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6

Alvin Ashcraft · 1st edition · Packt Publishing · 2022
dedicated to concurrency · on the shelf · example code ↗

Chapters

• 1 Managed Threading Concepts
• 2 Evolution of Multithreaded Programming in .NET
• 3 Best Practices for Managed Threading
• 4 User Interface Responsiveness and Threading
• 5 Asynchronous Programming with C#
• 6 Parallel Programming Concepts
• 7 Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Dataflow
• 8 Parallel Data Structures and Parallel LINQ
• 9 Working with Concurrent Collections in .NET
• 10 Debugging Multithreaded Applications with Visual Studio
• 11 Canceling Asynchronous Work
• 12 Unit Testing Async, Concurrent, and Parallel Code

Cited on: Blocking the event loop, Daemon and detached threads, Dataflow programming, Deadlock, Parallel iterators and streams, Pipeline, Race condition, Task parallelism, UI thread

Concurrency in C# Cookbook: Asynchronous, Parallel, and Multithreaded Programming

Stephen Cleary · 2nd edition · O'Reilly Media · 2019
dedicated to concurrency · on the shelf

Chapters

• 1 Concurrency: An Overview
• 2 Async Basics
• 3 Asynchronous Streams
• 4 Parallel Basics
• 5 Dataflow Basics
• 6 System.Reactive Basics
• 7 Testing
• 8 Interop
• 9 Collections
• 10 Cancellation
• 11 Functional-Friendly OOP
• 12 Synchronization
• 13 Scheduling
• 14 Scenarios
• B Recognizing and Interpreting Asynchronous Patterns

Cited on: Async stream, Cancellation, Concurrency, Dataflow programming, Immutability, Parallel iterators and streams, Polling, Reactive programming, Scheduler, Timeout

Concurrency in .NET: Modern patterns of concurrent and parallel programming

Riccardo Terrell · 1st edition · Manning Publications · 2018
dedicated to concurrency · on the shelf · publisher ↗ · example code ↗

Chapters

• 1 Functional concurrency foundations
• 2 Functional programming techniques for concurrency
• 3 Functional data structures and immutability
• 4 The basics of processing big data: data parallelism, part 1
• 5 PLINQ and MapReduce: data parallelism, part 2
• 6 Real-time event streams: functional reactive programming
• 7 Task-based functional parallelism
• 8 Task asynchronicity for the win
• 9 Asynchronous functional programming in F#
• 10 Functional combinators for fluent concurrent programming
• 11 Applying reactive programming everywhere with agents
• 12 Parallel workflow and agent programming with TPL Dataflow
• 13 Recipes and design patterns for successful concurrent programming
• 14 Building a scalable mobile app with concurrent functional programming

Cited on: Blocking and non-blocking calls, Data parallelism, Dataflow programming, Immutability, Map-reduce, Parallel iterators and streams, Reactive programming, Task (async), Task parallelism

Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET

Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer · 1st edition · Apress · 2013
dedicated to concurrency · on the shelf · publisher ↗ · example code ↗

Chapters

• 1 An Introduction to Asynchronous Programming
• 2 The Evolution of the .NET Asynchronous API
• 3 Tasks
• 4 Basic Thread Safety
• 5 Concurrent Data Structures
• 6 Asynchronous UI
• 7 async and await
• 8 Everything a Task
• 9 Server-Side Async
• 10 TPL Dataflow
• 11 Parallel Programming
• 12 Task Scheduling
• 13 Debugging Async with Visual Studio
• 14 Debugging Async —Beyond Visual Studio

Cited on: Async and await, Barrier, Dataflow programming, Join, Monitor, Parallelism, Producer-consumer, Semaphore, Task (async), Task parallelism, Thread safety, Timers and tickers, UI thread, Unbuffered channel

Concurrent Programming on Windows

Joe Duffy · 1st edition · Addison-Wesley (Pearson Education) · 2009
dedicated to concurrency · on the shelf

Chapters

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Synchronization and Time
• 3 Threads
• 4 Advanced Threads
• 5 Windows Kernel Synchronization
• 6 Data and Control Synchronization
• 7 Thread Pools
• 8 Asynchronous Programming Models
• 9 Fibers
• 10 Memory Models and Lock Freedom
• 11 Concurrency Hazards
• 12 Parallel Containers
• 13 Data and Task Parallelism
• 14 Performance and Scalability
• 15 Input and Output
• 16 Graphical User Interfaces
• A Designing Reusable Libraries for Concurrent .NET Programs
• B Parallel Extensions to .NET

Cited on: Asynchrony, Clock skew and drift, Concurrent data structures, Condition variable, Consistency models, Debugging concurrent programs, Fiber, Lock-free, Message passing, Mutual exclusion, Profiling concurrent programs, Read-write lock, Safety and liveness, Speedup and Amdahl's law, Task parallelism, Thread, Thread pool and executor, UI thread, Weak memory models and reordering

Programming C# 12: Build Cloud, Web, and Desktop Applications

Ian Griffiths · 1st (C# 12) edition · O'Reilly Media · 2024
a concurrency chapter in a broader book · on the shelf · example code ↗

The concurrency chapters

• 11 Rx: Reactive Extensions
• 16 Multithreading
• 17 Asynchronous Language Features

Cited on: Reactive programming

C# 10 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference

Joseph Albahari · 1st (C# 10) edition · O'Reilly Media · 2022
a concurrency chapter in a broader book · on the shelf

The concurrency chapters

• 14 Concurrency and Asynchrony
• 21 Advanced Threading
• 22 Parallel Programming

Cited on: Parallel iterators and streams, Run-once initialization, Timers and tickers