Chapter 6. Async implementation
This chapter covers
- The structure of asynchronous code
- Interacting with the framework builder types
- Performing a single step in an async method
- Understanding execution context flow across await expressions
- Interacting with custom task types
I vividly remember the evening of October 28, 2010. Anders Hejlsberg was presenting async/await at PDC, and shortly before his talk started, an avalanche of downloadable material was made available, including a draft of the changes to the C# specification, a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the C# 5 compiler, and the slides Anders was presenting. At one point, I was watching the talk live and skimming through the slides while the CTP installed. ...
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