Building a web application using non blocking calls to the data layer is a great way to increase the scalability of your system. Performing a task asynchronously frees up the worker thread to accept ...

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Here is my CopyFileEx class. It implements async I/O to copy a file from source to destination. It also raises an event as each chunk is read, so the calling application can present a file copy dialog ...