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async/await Tips

There’s been some really good guidance about async / await in the past week or two.  I’ve been tinkering away at this post for a while now—based on presentations I’ve been doing, discussions I’ve had with folks at Microsoft, etc.  Now seems...

Introduction to Productivity Extensions

The .NET Framework has been around since 2002. There are many common classes and methods that have been around a long time. The Framework and the languages used to develop on it have evolved quite a bit since many of these classes and their methods came...

Thread synchronization of non-atomic invariants in .NET 4.5

Now that we’ve seen how a singular x86-x64 focus might affect how we can synchronize atomic invariants , let’s look at non-atomic invariants. While an atomic invariant really doesn’t need much in the way of guarding , non-atomic invariants often do. ...