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 ...

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

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.

A couple of months ago, I did a column on using the new asynchronous methods that come with Entity Framwork (EF) 6.1. I got taken to task by my readers for creating overly complex solutions, who ...

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Building a web application using non blocking calls to the data layer is a great way to increase the scalability of your system. Performing a task asynchronously frees up the worker thread to accept ...

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 ...

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Take advantage of the async methods in Dapper to improve the scalability and performance of your ASP.NET Core applications. Dapper is an easy to use, lightweight, flexible, fast, and open source ...