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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 ...

Your guide to all aspects of how Xamarin has implemented .NET 4.5/C# 5's support for asynch operations in Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android. One of the great things about the .NET Framework is that ...

Asynchronous programming allows you to write programs that don’t block on each statement or instruction, meaning the computer can move on to other tasks before waiting for previous tasks to finish. As ...

Asynchronous code (async code) says: go do something while I do other things, then let me know what happened when the results are ready. Also known as concurrency, async is important in a variety of ...