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Async ValueTask Pooling in .NET 5

March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20
Stephen Toub - MSFT
The async/await feature in C# has revolutionized how developers targeting .NET write asynchronous code. Sprinkle some and around, change some return types to be tasks, and badda bing badda boom, you've got an asynchronous implementation. In theory. In practice, obviously I've exaggerated the ease with which a codebase can be made fully ...

ConfigureAwait FAQ

December 11, 2019 Dec 11, 2019 12/11/19
Stephen Toub - MSFT
.NET added / to the languages and libraries over seven years ago. In that time, it's caught on like wildfire, not only across the .NET ecosystem, but also being replicated in a myriad of other languages and frameworks. It's also seen a ton of improvements in .NET, in terms of additional language constructs that utilize asynchrony, APIs ...