Three Essential Tips for Async
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Async involves some new concepts. They're not difficult; just unfamiliar. Over the past year Lucian Wischik has been watching how people use Async in C# and VB. This series distils out the three essential async patterns and anti-patterns.
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5 minutes, 31 secondsThree Essential Tips For Async - IntroductionMar 12, 2013 at 6:00 AM
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Async involves some new concepts. They're not difficult; just unfamiliar. Over the past year Lucian Wischik has been watching how people use async/await in C# and VB. This series distils out the three top async patterns and anti-patterns. Tips: Async void is for top-level event-handlers only, and… -
20 minutes, 37 secondsTip 1: Async void is for top-level event-handlers onlyMar 12, 2013 at 6:00 AM 8
Async Tip #1: Async void is for top-level event-handlers only, and event-like things. Don't use it elsewhere in your code. Slides are available on Lucian's blog. Async void is a "fire-and-forget" mechanism: the caller is unable to know when an async void has finished, and the… -
16 minutes, 6 secondsTip 2: Distinguish CPU-Bound work from IO-bound workMar 12, 2013 at 6:00 AM 6
Async Tip #2: It's crucial to distinguish CPU-bound work (should be done on threadpool) from IO-bound work (which needn't). You can download slides for this talk from Lucian's blog. I remember reading an old Android dev blog post. It said: "1. A good practice in creating responsive… -
15 minutes, 32 secondsTip 3: Wrap events up in Task-returning APIs and await themMar 12, 2013 at 6:00 AM 16
Async Tip #3: You can wrap events up in Task-returning APIs and await them. This can dramatically simplify code. Slides and source code are available on Lucian's blog. This video introduces a new pattern for dealing with events: you can await them! Now why would you want to do that? Well,…
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