Asynchronous Web Services
One specific area in which you'll want to use asynchronous WinForms applications is when calling Web services. Calling a Web service is similar to passing a message between threads, except that Web services messages travel between machines using standard protocols such as HTTP and XML.[4] Imagine a .NET Web service that calculated digits of pi using some way-cool fast pi calculation engine:
[4] For thorough coverage of the whys and wherefores of Web services, you can read .NET Web Services: Architecture and Implementation with .NET (Addison-Wesley, 2003), by Keith Ballinger.
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