Microsoft has released the second preview version for .NET 11.0, bringing, among other things, innovations for asynchronous programming. Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg is Chief Technology Expert at ...

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 ...

Asynchronous programming allows you to write programs that don’t block on each statement or instruction, meaning the computer can move on to other tasks before waiting for previous tasks to finish. As ...

The Async CTP and async and await keywords allow C# (and VB) developers to easily create more responsive applications. Here's how to get started with the Async CTP. The Async Community Technology ...

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A couple of months ago, I did a column on using the new asynchronous methods that come with Entity Framwork (EF) 6.1. I got taken to task by my readers for creating overly complex solutions, who ...

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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 ...