.NET Parallel Programming

Forking in async methods

September 11, 2012 Sep 11, 2012 09/11/12

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Given that .NET 4.5 has only recently been released in its final form, it’s not surprising that many folks are still very new to the async/await keywords and have misconceptions about what they are and what they do (I’ve tried to clarify some of these in this Async/Await FAQ).  One of the more common misconceptions is that a ...

Processing tasks as they complete

August 2, 2012 Aug 2, 2012 08/2/12

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Recently I’ve had several folks ask me about how to process the results of tasks as those tasks complete.A developer will have multiple tasks representing asynchronous operations they’ve initiated, and they want to process the results of these tasks, e.g. List<Task<T>> tasks = …; foreach(var t in tasks...

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 ...

Performance consideration for Async/Await and MarshalByRefObject

May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12

Stephen Toub - MSFT

In the previous "What's New for Parallelism in Visual Studio 2012 RC" blog post, I mentioned briefly that for the .NET 4.5 Release Candidate, StreamReader.ReadLineAsync experienced a significant performance improvement over Beta.  There's an intriguing story behind that, one I thought I'd share here.It has to do with some interesting...