Concurrent Affairs: Simplified asynchronous programming model (APM) with C#

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Performing I/O-bound operations asynchronously is key to producing scalable and responsive applications, and the APM allows you to use a very small number of threads to execute a large amount of work without blocking any of the threads.

In the November issue of MSDN Magazine, Jeffrey Richter demonstrates some recent additions to the C# programming language that make working with the APM significantly easier. Jeffrey also introduces a custom AsyncEnumerator class that builds on these C# language features to solve some problems of asynchronous programming.

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