August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 26m
English
Content preview from Mastering ASP.NET Web API
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Asynchronous controller action methods
ASP.NET supports asynchronous actions using TAP (Task-based Asynchronous Pattern), this was first released in the .NET 4.0 framework and was greatly improved in .NET 4.5 and above using the async and await keywords.
In general, asynchronous programming in .NET helps to achieve a responsive application, improve scalability, and handles high number of requests in case of web applications.
.NET Core also supports asynchronous programming in the form of the async and await pattern. This pattern should be used when working with I/O or CPU bound or for database access.
As asynchronous means not occurring at the same time, any method called in an asynchronous way will return results later. To co-ordinate with ...