Chapter 23 Assembly Loading and Reflection 583

Assembly Loading........................................................................................ 584

Using Reflection to Build a Dynamically Extensible Application.......... 588

Reflection Performance............................................................................... 589

Discovering Types Defined in an Assembly.................................. 590

What Exactly Is a Type Object?........................................................ 591

Building a Hierarchy of Exception-Derived Types........................ 593

Constructing an Instance of a Type................................................. 594

Designing an Application That Supports Add-Ins................................... 596

Using Reflection to Discover a Type’s Members..................................... 599

Discovering a Type’s Members....................................................... 599

Invoking a Type’s Members.............................................................. 603

Using Binding Handles to Reduce Your Process’s

Memory Consumption....................................................................... 608

Chapter 24 Runtime Serialization 611

Serialization/Deserialization Quick Start................................................... 613

Making a Type Serializable......................................................................... 617

Controlling Serialization and Deserialization.......................................... 619

How Formatters Serialize Type Instances................................................ 623

Controlling the Serialized/Deserialized Data........................................... 624

How to Define a Type That Implements ISerializable

When the Base Type Doesn’t Implement This Interface............. 630

Streaming Contexts...................................................................................... 631

Serializing a Type As a Different Type and Deserializing

an Object As a Different Object............................................................. 633

Serialization Surrogates............................................................................... 636

Surrogate Selector Chains................................................................ 639

Overriding the Assembly and/or Type When Deserializing

an Object.................................................................................................... 640

Contents xvii

Chapter 25 Interoperating with WinRT Components 643

CLR Projections and WinRT Component Type System Rules................ 645

WinRT Type System Core Concepts............................................... 645

Framework Projections................................................................................ 649

Calling Asynchronous WinRT APIs from .NET Code................... 649

Interoperating Between WinRT Streams and .NET Streams........ 654

Passing Blocks of Data Between the CLR and WinRT................... 656

Defining WinRT Components in C#.......................................................... 658

PART V THREADING

Chapter 26 Thread Basics 669

Why Does Windows Support Threads?..................................................... 669

Thread Overhead.......................................................................................... 670

Stop the Madness......................................................................................... 674

CPU Trends.................................................................................................... 677

CLR Threads and Windows Threads......................................................... 678

Using a Dedicated Thread to Perform an Asynchronous

Compute-Bound Operation.................................................................... 678

Reasons to Use Threads.............................................................................. 681

Thread Scheduling and Priorities............................................................... 683

Foreground Threads vs. Background Threads........................................ 688

What Now?..................................................................................................... 689

Chapter 27 Compute-Bound Asynchronous Operations 691

Introducing the CLR’s Thread Pool............................................................ 692

Performing a Simple Compute-Bound Operation.................................. 693

Execution Contexts....................................................................................... 694

Cooperative Cancellation and Timeout.................................................... 696

Tasks................................................................................................................ 700

Waiting for a Task to Complete and Getting Its Result................. 702

Canceling a Task................................................................................ 704

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Starting a New Task Automatically When Another

Task Completes................................................................................. 705

A Task May Start Child Tasks............................................................ 707

Inside a Task........................................................................................ 707

Task Factories..................................................................................... 709

Task Schedulers................................................................................. 711

Parallel’s Static For, ForEach, and Invoke Methods................ 713

Parallel Language Integrated Query......................................................... 717

Performing a Periodic Compute-Bound Operation.............................. 720

So Many Timers, So Little Time....................................................... 723

How the Thread Pool Manages Its Threads............................................. 723

Setting Thread Pool Limits............................................................... 724

How Worker Threads Are Managed............................................... 724

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