Chapter 44. Asynchronous Programming

In This Chapter

• Overview of Asynchrony

• Before .NET 4.5: Event-based Asynchrony

• Before .NET 4.5: Asynchronous Programming Model

• .NET 4.5: Introducing the Async Pattern

• Getting Started With Async/Await

• Exception Handling in Async

• Task-based Asynchrony

• Cancellation and Progress

• Asynchronous Lambda Expressions

• Asynchronous I/O File Operations in .NET 4.5

When you go to the restaurant, there are waiters and waitresses ready to serve your table. A waiter takes your order, brings the order to the kitchen, goes to serve another table, and then comes back to your table to bring you your meals. While waiting for you to finish, the waiter does similar operations for other patrons. So, the waiter ...

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