Exam Ref 70-483: Programming in C#

Chapter summary

• Multithreading can help you create programs that are responsive and scalable. You can use the TPL, the Parallel class, and PLINQ for this. The new async/await keywords help you write asynchronous code.

• In a multithreaded environment, it’s important to manage synchronization of shared data. You can do this by using the lock statement.

• C# offers statements for making decisions—if, switch, conditional operator (?) and null-coalescing operator (??)—iterating (for, foreach, while, do-while), and jump statements (break, continue, goto, return and throw).

• Delegates are objects that point to a method and can be used to invoke the method. Lambda expressions are a shorthand syntax for creating anonymous methods inline.

• Events are a layer on ...