If you're one of the many developers uncertain about concurrent and multithreaded development, this practical cookbook will change your mind. With more than 75 code-rich recipes, author Stephen Cleary demonstrates parallel processing and asynchronous programming techniques, using libraries and language features in .NET 4.5 and C# 5.0.

Concurrency is becoming more common in responsive and scalable application development, but it€s been extremely difficult to code. The detailed solutions in this cookbook show you how modern tools raise the level of abstraction, making concurrency much easier than before. Complete with ready-to-use code and discussions about how and why the solution works, you get recipes for using:

• async and await for asynchronous operations
• Parallel programming with the Task Parallel Library
• The TPL Dataflow library for creating dataflow pipelines
• Capabilities that Reactive Extensions build on top of LINQ
• Unit testing with concurrent code
• Interop scenarios for combining concurrent approaches
• Immutable, threadsafe, and producer/consumer collections
• Cancellation support in your concurrent code
• Asynchronous-friendly Object-Oriented Programming
• Thread synchronization for accessing data