dotnet-channels

Deep guide to System.Threading.Channels for high-performance, thread-safe producer/consumer communication in .NET. Covers channel creation, backpressure strategies, IAsyncEnumerable integration, and graceful shutdown patterns.

Scope

• Channel creation (bounded and unbounded)
• Backpressure strategies and capacity management
• IAsyncEnumerable integration with channel readers
• Graceful shutdown and drain patterns

Out of scope

• Hosted service lifecycle and BackgroundService registration -- see [skill:dotnet-background-services]
• Async/await fundamentals and cancellation token propagation -- see [skill:dotnet-csharp-async-patterns]

Cross-references: [skill:dotnet-background-services] for integrating channels with hosted services, [skill:dotnet-csharp-async-patterns] for async patterns used in channel consumers.