Asynchronous programming has been in use for quite some time now. In recent years, it has been made more powerful with the introduction of the async and await keywords. You can take advantage of ...

The TPL (Task Parallel Library) is one of the most interesting new features added in the recent versions of .NET framework. The Task.WaitAll and Task.WhenAll methods are two important and frequently ...

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.

As Web and mobile applications face the challenge of quickly analyzing huge volumes of live data, developers are turning to data-parallel computing techniques to tackle these daunting computations.

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Building a web application using non blocking calls to the data layer is a great way to increase the scalability of your system. Performing a task asynchronously frees up the worker thread to accept ...