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.

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 ...

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There's a lot of confusion about async/await, Task/TPL, and asynchronous and parallel programming in general. So let's start with the basics and look at how we can call asynchronous methods using Task ...