Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step

Chapter 23. Improving throughput by using tasks

After completing the chapter, you will be able to:

• Why perform multitasking by using parallel processing?

• Using the Task class to implement parallelism

• Use the Parallel class to parallelize some common programming constructs.

• Canceling tasks and handling exceptions

In the bulk of the preceding chapters in this book, you 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 has been executing a single instruction. This might not always be the most efficient approach for an application to take. Applications that can perform multiple operations at the same time might be able to make better use of the resources available ...