The Async Community Technology Preview (CTP) is a freely available download for Visual Studio 2010. The Async CTP includes the async and await keywords that are being considered for the next ...

Asynchronous programming has been around for quite a while now. The introduction of the async and await keywords in .NET enabled us to write programs that could take advantage of asynchrony with ease.

An async method in C# can have any one of these return types: Task, Task and void. The “await” keyword is used in an async method to inform the compiler that the method can have a suspension ...

[Sandro Magi] noted that the async/await idiom has become more prevalent in programming recently. According to him, he first encountered it in C# but has found examples of it in JavaScript and Rust… ...

The new language features async and await integrate very smoothly with the existing Task Parallel Library in .NET 4 and definitely make it easier to both create and call asynchronous methods. I highly ...