Learning .NET High-performance Programming

Task UI synchronization

When dealing with asynchronous programming, the UI experience may achieve great improvement. The first look at any Windows Phone or Windows Store application will easily grant such feedback because of the obligation Microsoft made to SDKs for such platforms.

Dealing with an application that never waits for any external/internal resource or computation, and always remains responsive, is a great feature. The drawback is that Windows Forms and WPF controls are unable to easily update their user data using asynchronous threads (this limitation doesn't exist on ASP.NET).

Both frameworks, Windows Forms and WPF, implement their controls on a Single Thread Apartment (STA) with affinity. This means that all objects born on the starting ...