Understand how asynchrony works in .Net and adhere to the recommended practices when writing unit tests to test asynchronous code A proper and planned approach toward unit testing helps you to detect ...

Several classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) provide both synchronous and asynchronous method signatures. Because a synchronous method call can create a delay in program flow, an ...

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You want the responsiveness that asynchronous programming in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 provides, but also need your asynchronous methods to work with other code in your application. Here's how ...

For sample code such as what I'll be showing in this article, a simple Console application with a few Console.WriteLine commands will suffice. However, if I were to punch out a quick sample of some ...

Exception handling is the technique of handling runtime errors in an application. Asynchronous programming allows us to perform resource-intensive operations without the need for blocking on the main ...