Microsoft just announced the new C# Async feature. Every example I've seen so far is about asynchronously downloading something from HTTP. Surely there are other important async things? Suppose I'm not writing a new RSS client or Twitter app. What's interesting about C# Async for me? Edit I had an Aha! moment while watching Anders' PDC...
Microsoft announced the Visual Studio Async CTP today that introduces the async and await keywords into C#/VB for asynchronous method execution. First I thought that the compiler translates the keywords into the creation of a thread but according to the white paper and Anders Hejlsberg's PDC presentation (at 31:00) the asynchronous ope...
I don't see the different between C#'s (and VB's) new async features, and .NET 4.0's Task Parallel Library. Take, for example, Eric Lippert's code from here: async void ArchiveDocuments(List<Url> urls) { Task archive = null; for(int i = 0; i < urls.Count; ++i) { var document = await FetchAsync(urls[i]); if (archi...
Can anyone explain the "await" function? ...
For some reason there is a pause after the program below starts. I believe that WebClient().DownloadStringTaskAsync() is the cause. class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { AsyncReturnTask(); for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++) { Console.WriteLine(i); Thread.Sleep(100); ...
I am wondering what do the new C# 5.0 asynchronous features mean for Rx - Reactive Extensions? It seems to be not a replacement but they seem to overlap - Task and IObservable. ...