TPL Dataflow by Example: Dataflow and Reactive Programming in .Net

by Matt Carkci

The TPL Dataflow Library allows you to design asynchronous Actor and Dataflow based applications. While similar to Microsoft's Reactive Extensions, it goes far beyond what is offered by Rx with a more generalized abstraction to build all types of stream based applications. It does not force you to use IObservable and LINQ, data is simply a stream. Messages transmit data from one block to another over links. Blocks handle the details of multithreading and execute anytime they receive data. All you have to think about is programming the blocks to do what you want. Focus on the problem domain not asynchronous details. Downloadable code examples are used throughout the book to explain the library with a hands-on approach ().

60 pages, Paperback

First published April 8, 2014

Reviews

[Tavi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Does a decent job as in introductory text

A good introduction to Dataflow. We need a text that draws a cleaner set of distinctions between reactive extensions and dataflow; special attention should be given to how to best use dataflow and RX together in wpf and xaml and server side applications.

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