Improving your C# Skills

With this Learning Path, you will be able to easily solve complex programming challenges using advanced features of C#. You'll structure and build scalable, optimized, and robust applications in C#7 and .NET, and with the newly-acquired TDD skills, you'll be ready to enter the market not only as a C# pro, but also as a TDD expert.

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Conquer complex and interesting programming challenges by building robust and concurrent applications with caches, cryptography, and parallel programming.

Key Features

Understand how to use .NET frameworks like the Task Parallel Library (TPL)and CryptoAPI
Develop a containerized application based on microservices architecture
Gain insights into memory management techniques in .NET Core

Book DescriptionThis Learning Path shows you how to create high performing applications and solve programming challenges using a wide range of C# features. You’ll begin by learning how to identify the bottlenecks in writing programs, highlight common performance pitfalls, and apply strategies to detect and resolve these issues early. You'll also study the importance of micro-services architecture for building fast applications and implementing resiliency and security in .NET Core. Then, you'll study the importance of defining and testing boundaries, abstracting away third-party code, and working with different types of test double, such as spies, mocks, and fakes. In addition to describing programming trade-offs, this Learning Path will also help you build a useful toolkit of techniques, including value caching, statistical analysis, and geometric algorithms. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:



C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance by Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7 by John Callaway, Clayton Hunt
The Modern C# Challenge by Rod Stephens

What you will learn

Measure application performance using BenchmarkDotNet
Leverage the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Parallel Language Integrated Query (PLINQ)library to perform asynchronous operations
Modify a legacy application to make it testable
Use LINQ and PLINQ to search directories for files matching patterns
Find areas of polygons using geometric operations
Randomize arrays and lists with extension methods
Use cryptographic techniques to encrypt and decrypt strings and files

Who this book is forIf you want to improve the speed of your code and optimize the performance of your applications, or are simply looking for a practical resource on test driven development, this is the ideal Learning Path for you. Some familiarity with C# and .NET will be beneficial.