There's a lot of confusion about async/await, Task/TPL and asynchronous and parallel programming in general, so Jeremy Clark is on a mission to inform developers on how to use everything properly.

I've been reading up on async/await somewhat but there are still things I don't get. I have experience writing socket servers with the Begin/End pattern, but I find some of this async/await confusing.

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 while ...

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Visual Studio Async is a powerful development framework, but it's important to understand how it works to avoid performance hits. In a recent online C# Corner column, "Exceptional Async Handling with ...

You can take advantage of asynchrony to perform resource-intensive I/O operations sans the need to block the main or the executing thread of the application. Asynchrony when used properly can increase ...

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Why do you not want to handle exceptions in your app? You'll certainly get them if you're doing any sort of network IO. I would have the while loop and in it i would just be using ContinueWith on all ...