Microsoft is fitting its Visual Basic and C# languages with an asynchronous programming model to help developers accommodate the growing complexity in applications.

Tomas Petricek, author of Real-World Functional Programming, discusses six common mistakes found in asynchronous C# code and demonstrates how F# makes them less likely to occur.

VSM Web columnist Eric Vogel kicks off his first C# Corner installment with a walk through creating an application using asynchronous programming.

The Async CTP and async and await keywords allow C# (and VB) developers to easily create more responsive applications. Here's how to get started with the Async CTP.

HIGHLIGHTS This guide shows the evolution of parallel programming in C# and explains how to use the new Async paradigm, introduced in C# version 5.0 to develop multi-threaded applications ...

Take advantage of the ability to create and consume data streams asynchronously in C# 8.0 to improve the performance of your applications. Asynchronous programming has been around for quite a ...

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 ...

Microsoft's New .NET Rx Framework Tackles Challenges of Asynchronous Programming By John K. Waters 08/10/09 Microsoft has quietly released the first key components of its .NET Reactive Framework (Rx), ...

Say that you're developing an tool that let's users customize it via JavaScript. Some of the common functions that will be called from the scripts are fundamentally asynchronous - they ultimately ...