C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications

Common types that support multitasking

Here are some common types that have asynchronous methods that you can await:

Type	Methods
DbContext<T>	AddAsync, AddRangeAsync, FindAsync, and SaveChangesAsync
DbSet<T>	AddAsync, AddRangeAsync, ForEachAsync, SumAsync, ToListAsync, ToDictionaryAsync, AverageAsync, and CountAsync
HttpClient	GetAsync, PostAsync, PutAsync, DeleteAsync, and SendAsync
StreamReader	ReadAsync, ReadLineAsync, and ReadToEndAsync
StreamWriter	WriteAsync, WriteLineAsync, and FlushAsync

Good PracticeAny time you see a method that ends in the suffix Async, check to see whether it returns Task or Task<T>. If it does, then you should use it instead of the synchronous non Async suffixed method. Remember to call it using ...