Part 2. Advanced uses of async/await and multithreading

Now that you know all about async/await and multithreading, it’s time to dive deeper and understand that there’s much more to multithreading and asynchronous programming than the await keyword and Task.Run.

Part 2 discusses different ways to process data in the background (chapter 8) and then explains how to cancel background processing (chapter 9). Next, you will learn how to build complex asynchronous components (chapter 10) and how to customize async/await’s threading behavior (chapter 11). We’ll have a short discussion about the complexity of exceptions in asynchronous programming (chapter 12) and talk about thread-safe collections (chapter 13). In the final chapter, we’ll talk about how to write our own asynchronous collection-like components (chapter 14).

By the end of part 2 (and the book), you should have everything you need to understand and develop multithreaded applications. You will know how all the parts work and how to combine them.