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Tue, May 21 2013 0:14

Book Review: Async in C# 5.0

Resources: Amazon , Barnes and Noble , Play Books The book's web site (O'Reilly) – downloads, errata etc A while ago I was attending one of the Developer, Developer, Developer conference in Reading, and I heard Alex Davies give a talk about actors...
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Tue, Mar 6 2012 19:54

Eduasync 20: Changes between the VS11 Preview and the Visual Studio 11 Beta

A while I ago I blogged about what had changed under the hood of async between the CTP and the VS11 Preview. Well, now that the VS11 Beta is out, it's time to do it all again... Note that the code in this post is in the Eduasync codebase , under a...
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Mon, Jan 16 2012 22:22

Eduasync part 19: ordering by completion, ahead of time...

Today's post involves the MagicOrdering project in source control (project 28). When I wrote part 16 of Eduasync , showing composition in the form of majority voting, one reader mailed me a really interesting suggestion. We don't really need to...
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Thu, Jan 12 2012 1:34

Eduasync part 18: Changes between the Async CTP and the Visual Studio 11 Preview

In preparation for CodeMash, I've been writing some more async code and decompiling it with Reflector. This time I'm using the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview - the version which installs alongside Visual Studio 2010 under Windows 7. (Don't...
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Fri, Nov 25 2011 21:46

Eduasync part 17: unit testing

In the last post I showed a method to implement "majority voting" for tasks, allowing a result to become available as soon as possible. At the end, I mentioned that I was reasonably confident that it worked because of the unit tests... but I...
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Tue, Nov 22 2011 23:18

Eduasync part 16: Example of composition: majority voting

Note: For the rest of this series, I'll be veering away from the original purpose of the project (investigating what the compiler is up to) in favour of discussing the feature itself. As such, I've added a requirement for AsyncCtpLib.dll - but...
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Thu, Jul 28 2011 21:29

Speaking engagement: Progressive .NET, London, September 7th

Just a quick note to mention an event I'll be speaking at in September. SkillsMatter will be hosting Progressive .NET , a 3-day event set of tutorials on September 5th-7th in London. I'll be speaking about C# 5's async feature on the last...
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Wed, Jun 29 2011 18:18

Eduasync part 14: Data passing in coroutines

(This post covers project 19 in the source code .) Last time we looked at independent coroutines running in a round-robin fashion. This time we'll keep the round-robin scheduling, but add in the idea of passing data from one coroutine to another....
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Wed, Jun 22 2011 21:37

Eduasync part 13: first look at coroutines with async

(This part covers project 18 in the source code .) As I mentioned in earlier parts, the "awaiting" part of async methods is in no way limited to tasks. So long as we have a suitable GetAwaiter() method which returns a value of a type which in...
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Wed, Jun 22 2011 7:04

Eduasync part 12: Observing all exceptions

(This post covers projects 16 and 17 in the source code .) Last time we looked at unwrapping an AggregateException when we await a result. While there are potentially other interesting things we could look at with respect to exceptions (particularly around...
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Wed, Jun 22 2011 6:25

Eduasync part 11: More sophisticated (but lossy) exception handling

(This post covers projects 13-15 in the source code .) Long-time readers of this blog may not learn much from this post - it's mostly going over what I've covered before . Still, it's new to Eduasync. Why isn't my exception being caught...
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Fri, Jun 10 2011 22:28

Eduasync part 10: CTP bug - don't combine multiple awaits in one statement...

(This post covers project 12 in the source code .) Last time, we saw what happens when we have multiple await expressions: we end up with multiple potential states in our state machine. That's all fine, but there's a known bug in the current CTP...
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Mon, May 30 2011 21:06

Eduasync part 9: generated code for multiple awaits

Last time we looked at a complex async method with nested loops and a single await. This post is the exact opposite - the method is going to look simple, but it will have three await expressions in. If you're glancing down this post and feel put off...
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Sun, May 29 2011 19:30

Eduasync part 8: generated code from a complex async method

Last time we had a really simple async method, and looked at the generated code. Even that took a little while... but in this post I'll demonstrate some of the intricacies that get involved when the async method is more complex. In particular, this...
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Fri, May 20 2011 19:21

Eduasync part 7: generated code from a simple async method

In part 6 we tried to come up with a "manual" translation of a very simple async method. This time we'll see what the compiler really generates. As a reminder, here's the async method in question: private   static   async Task<...
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Fri, May 20 2011 14:36

Eduasync part 6: using the infrastructure manually

Now that we've got the infrastructure for both returning a task from an async method, and awaiting a Task<T>, we're going to look at what the compiler does for us. I always find that the best way of appreciating a feature like this is to...
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Tue, May 17 2011 20:47

Eduasync part 5: making Task<T> awaitable

In part 3 we looked at what the C# 5 compiler required for you to "await" something. The sample used a class which actually had an instance method called GetAwaiter, but I mentioned that it could also be an extension method. In this post, we'll...
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Sun, May 15 2011 20:21

Eduasync part 4: Filling in AsyncTaskMethodBuilder<T>

In part 2 , I introduced AsyncVoidMethodBuilder, AsyncTaskMethodBuilder and AsyncTaskMethodBuilder<T>. I showed all the signatures , but the implementations were basically trivial and non-functional. Today, I'm going to change all of that.....
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Fri, May 13 2011 22:56

Eduasync part 3: the shape of the async method / awaitable boundary

Last time we looked into the boundary between the caller of an async method and the method itself. This time I'm going to show the same sort of "skeleton API" but for awaitable types. This is at the heart of C# 5's async feature: within...
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Fri, May 13 2011 20:35

Eduasync part 2: the shape of the caller / async method boundary

For the first few parts of this blog series, we’re not going to write code which actually does anything useful. We’re looking at the API more than the implementation - the bare necessities to get the code to compile. Remember that we’re working without...
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