.NET Parallel Programming

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June 2012 - .NET Parallel Programming

ExecutionContext vs SynchronizationContext

June 15, 2012 Jun 15, 2012 06/15/12
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 ...

Using async/await in WinRT async operations

June 14, 2012 Jun 14, 2012 06/14/12
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 ...