Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, 10th Edition

Chapter 23

Improving throughput by using tasks

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the benefits of implementing parallel operations in an application.

• Explain the relationship between parallelization and the number of processor cores available.

• Use the Task class and the Parallel class to create and run parallel operations in an application.

• Cancel long-running tasks and handle exceptions raised by parallel operations.

In the bulk of this book, you’ve learned how to use C# to write programs that run in a single-threaded manner. By single-threaded, I mean that at any one point in time, a program executes a single instruction. This might not always be the most efficient approach for an application to take, however. If ...