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Stephen Toub: Async Update - Technical Overview and Building Awaitable Types

Posted: Apr 15, 2011 at 8:40 AM
By: Charles
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The recent Visual Studio Async CTP SP1 refresh includes many core improvements, bug fixes and new support for WP7 and VS Express. Architect Stephen Toub digs into some of the updates and explains how making your own awaitable types has gotten easier in this release. As usual, Stephen covers a lot of technical ground and shares his knowledge and insights very clearly. Tune in.

Get the latest Async CTP: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/async

Provide feedback/ask questions: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/async/threads

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felix9 the cat that walked by itself

Apr 15, 2011 at 9:18 AM

nice. and Lucian Wischik is posting a serials of blog posts about this in details too
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucian/archive/2011/04/15/async-ctp-refresh-design-changes.aspx
Charles Welcome Change

Apr 15, 2011 at 9:22 AM

@felix9: Lucian will also show up on C9 very soon covering compiler changes and more.
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dpratt71
Apr 15, 2011 at 4:06 PM
I tend to think that so-called fluent APIs are sometimes abused, but it seems to me that something like
```
await t.ContinueOnCapturedContext();
```
would be more readable and a more flexible pattern for dealing with future unknowns.
staceyw Before C# there was darkness...

Apr 18, 2011 at 7:10 PM

I just realized the trusty DoEvents() was sort of an old school version of async. Schedule rest of me on the queue on current context.
Good work. Look forward to trying the new bits. Thank you.

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