If you would like to leverage the performance and scalability benefits of asynchrony, you should implement the asynchronous programming pattern using the async and await keywords as shown in the ...

Microsoft is fitting its Visual Basic and C# languages with an asynchronous programming model to help developers accommodate the growing complexity in applications.

Dave Marini delves into the history of asynchronous programming on the .NET platform, tracing through the early days of the Asynchronous Programming Model to today’s async/await patterns.

Although multithreading increases the frequency with which asynchrony occurs, the release of the TPL and PLINQ was not accompanied with any language changes that improved the asynchronous programming ...