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 ...

By understanding these two scenarios, it's clear why multithreading alone was not sufficient to address asynchrony. Although multithreading increases the frequency with which asynchrony occurs, the ...

Fortunately, as mentioned earlier, asynchrony is the focus of the next version of the .NET Framework, with the introduction of the Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP). Furthermore, the TAP API will ...

Microsoft is previewing extensions for .Net catering to asynchronous and event-based programming. [ Read InfoWorld’s report this week on Silverlight 4. ] “Rx has a strong theoretical basis by using ...