Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed, Third Edition

Asynchronous Programming

Most of the time, developers write code that processes a series of commands sequentially. For instance, we can envision a simple routine (TallyExpenseReport) that accepts an ID, calls a second routine (GetExpenseReport) to call a service with that ID to retrieve an expense report, grabs the total dollar amount of the expense report, and then updates a database before finally giving the user a message indicating the status of the operation.

C#

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public void TallyExpenseReport(string id){    //get the expense report    ExpenseReport rpt = GetExpenseReport(id);    UpdateDataStore(id, rpt.TotalAmt);}public ExpenseReport GetExpenseReport(string id){    //code to fetch an expense report goes here ...