CHAPTER 7
async and await
In view of Windows 8’s mantra of “Fast and Fluid,” it has never been more important to ensure that UIs don’t stall. To ensure that UI developers have no excuses for not using asynchronous methods, the C# language introduces two new keywords: async and await. These two little gems make consuming and composing asynchronous methods as easy as their synchronous counterparts.
This chapter is a story of two parts. The first part explains how easy asynchronous programming can be in C# 5, while the second part is a deep dive into the compiler magic behind the keywords. The second part may not be for everyone, so feel free to ...
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