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 ...

Several classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) provide both synchronous and asynchronous method signatures. Because a synchronous method call can create a delay in program flow, an ...

Your guide to all aspects of how Xamarin has implemented .NET 4.5/C# 5's support for asynch operations in Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android. One of the great things about the .NET Framework is that ...

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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 ...

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Visual Studio Async is a powerful development framework, but it's important to understand how it works to avoid performance hits. In a recent online C# Corner column, "Exceptional Async Handling with ...

Exception handling is the technique of handling runtime errors in an application. Asynchronous programming allows us to perform resource-intensive operations without the need for blocking on the main ...

Taking advantage of .NET generics can save you loads of repetitive data access leg work. Since it’s likely that each of your data tables will require the same basic operations (Get, Find, Add, Update, ...

I've been reading up on async/await somewhat but there are still things I don't get. I have experience writing socket servers with the Begin/End pattern, but I find some of this async/await confusing.