I've been reading up on async/await somewhat but there are still things I don't get. I have experience writing socket servers with the Begin/End pattern, but I find some of this async/await confusing.

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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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 ...