Board:   [DeveloperNet] C#
Subject: Asynchronous programming
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Mon Jun 06, 2011 19:54

I went to this year's CodeCamp event in my area, and one of the presentations I
saw was about asynchronous programming featuresto appear in the next version
of C#.  The point was that they're changing the paradigm for parallel
programming a bit - There will be ways to do parallel programming without
directly using threads.  For instance, in the next C#, 'await' will be a new
language keyword that will run a function in a separate thread and wait for it
to finish.  This can be used, for example, to preventthe GUI from freezing up
when a function that takes a lot of time runs.  And there are other tricks for
writing asynchronous apps without directly using threads..  It looked fairly
interesting..  Different ways of thinking about things can lead to new creative
solutions.

Nightfox

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