.NET Parallel Programming

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January 2013 - .NET Parallel Programming

Psychic Debugging of Async Methods

January 28, 2013 Jan 28, 2013 01/28/13
Stephen Toub - MSFT
These days it’s not uncommon for me to receive an email or read a forum post from someone concerned about a problem they’re experiencing with an async method they’ve written, and they’re seeking help debugging the issue.  Sometimes plenty of information about the bug is conveyed, but other times the communication ...

Cooperatively pausing async methods

January 13, 2013 Jan 13, 2013 01/13/13
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Recently I was writing an app that processed a bunch of files asynchronously.  As with the Windows copy file dialog, I wanted to be able to provide the user with a button that would pause the processing operation.To achieve that, I implemented a simple mechanism that would allow me to pass a “pause token” into the async method...