Learn the best practices to create and schedule tasks efficiently in .Net using Task.Run and Task.Factory.StartNew methods When creating tasks using Task.Factory.StartNew or Task.Run methods, you ...

Create continuations using the Task Parallel Library that can run immediately after the execution of the antecedent is complete or to chain tasks as continuations A continuation is like a delegate ...

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.

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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.

Most programmers know that you typically implement Windows services as executable programs. What many developers don't realize is that a single executable can contain more than one service. For ...