October 2011 | .NET Parallel Programming

When at last you await

Stephen Toub - MSFTOctober 24, 2011Oct 24, 201110/24/11

When you start using async methods heavily, you’ll likely see a particular pattern of composition pop up from time to time. Its structure is typically either of the form: async Task FooAsync() { … // some initialization code without awaits await BarAsync(…);

Task.Run vs Task.Factory.StartNew

Stephen Toub - MSFTOctober 24, 2011Oct 24, 201110/24/11

In .NET 4, Task.Factory.StartNew was the primary method for scheduling a new task. Many overloads provided for a highly configurable mechanism, enabling setting options, passing in arbitrary state, enabling cancellation, and even controlling scheduling behaviors. The flip side of all of this power is complexity. You need to k

New articles on async/await in MSDN Magazine

Stephen Toub - MSFTOctober 3, 2011Oct 3, 201110/3/11

The October 2011 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. In it, you can find three articles about the new async/await features of C# and Visual Basic. While the articles can stand alone, they were written with each other in mind in order to provide a 1-2-3 on-ramp into the world of asynchronous programming with these new la

Keeping Async Methods Alive

Stephen Toub - MSFTOctober 2, 2011Oct 2, 201110/2/11

Consider a type that will print out a message when it’s finalized, and that has a Dispose method which will suppress finalization: class DisplayOnFinalize : IDisposable { public void Dispose() { GC.SuppressFinalize(this); } ~DisplayOnFinalize() { Console.WriteLine(“Finalized”); } } Now co

Don’t Forget To Complete Your Tasks

Stephen Toub - MSFTOctober 2, 2011Oct 2, 201110/2/11

“Don’t forget to complete your tasks.” That guidance may sound trivial and silly, but I recently saw it as a source of a bug in software written by some very smart folks, and thus thought this would be a good opportunity to remind folks of the imperative.Tasks represent a promise. If you hand one out, someone else

.NET Parallel Programming

October 2011 | .NET Parallel Programming

When at last you await

Task.Run vs Task.Factory.StartNew

New articles on async/await in MSDN Magazine

Keeping Async Methods Alive

Don’t Forget To Complete Your Tasks

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