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.

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I've been reading up on async/await somewhat but there are still things I don't get. I have experience writing socket servers with the Begin/End pattern, but I find some of this async/await confusing.

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Take advantage of the ability to create and consume data streams asynchronously in C# 8.0 to improve the performance of your applications. Asynchronous programming has been around for quite a while ...

Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development. There are performance benefits to using ...

You can take advantage of asynchronous programming to perform resource-intensive operations without having to block on executing thread of your application. This increases the throughput while at the ...