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

The Discussion

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  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

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  @felix9: Lucian will also show up on C9 very soon covering compiler changes and more.

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  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.

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  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.