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 ...

IntroductionThis is a note regarding what happens when an exception occurs in a separate thread without being caught, ...

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 ...

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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 ...