There's a lot of confusion about async/await, Task/TPL and asynchronous and parallel programming in general, so Jeremy Clark is on a mission to inform developers on how to use everything properly.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can take advantage of asynchrony to perform resource-intensive I/O operations sans the need to block the main or the executing thread of the application. Asynchrony when used properly can increase ...

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