October 2010 - Posts

C# 5 Async, Part 1: Simplifying Asynchrony – That for which we await
Thu, Oct 28 2010 13:46
Today’s announcement at PDC of the future directions C# is taking excite me greatly.  The new Visual Studio Async CTP is amazing.  Asynchronous code – code which frustrates and demoralizes even the most advanced of developers, is taking a huge...
by Reed Copsey, Jr.
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Parallelism in .NET – Part 20, Using Task with Existing APIs
Wed, Oct 27 2010 15:15
Although the Task class provides a huge amount of flexibility for handling asynchronous actions, the .NET Framework still contains a large number of APIs that are based on the previous asynchronous programming model.  While Task and Task<T>...
by Reed Copsey, Jr.
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by Reed Copsey, Jr.
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Parallelism in .NET – Part 19, TaskContinuationOptions
Tue, Oct 26 2010 19:30
My introduction to Task continuations demonstrates continuations on the Task class.  In addition, I’ve shown how continuations allow handling of multiple tasks in a clean, concise manner.  Continuations can also be used to handle exceptional...
by Reed Copsey, Jr.
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