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Jun 15, 2012
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ExecutionContext vs SynchronizationContext

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

I’ve been asked a few times recently various questions about ExecutionContext and SynchronizationContext, for example what the differences are between them, what it means to “flow” them, and how they relate to the new async/await keywords in C# and Visual Basic.  I thought I’d try to tackle some of those questions here....

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Jun 14, 2012
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Using async/await in WinRT async operations

Stephen Toub - MSFT
Stephen Toub - MSFT

Several weeks ago, I wrote a post for the Windows 8 app developer blog that was all about using await and AsTask to consume WinRT async operations.  I've now published a follow-up post that's all about exposing .NET tasks as WinRT async operation.  In a sense, you can think about the first post as showing how to convert from WinRT as...

Parallel ExtensionsTask Parallel Library.NET 4.5