Several classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) provide both synchronous and asynchronous method signatures. Because a synchronous method call can create a delay in program flow, an ...

Make a system call now, get the result later: a proposed kernel patch expands the possibilities for asynchronous I/O. The kernel’s support for asynchronous I/O is incomplete, and it always has been.

Here's some pseudocode I want to use when the user clicks my deleteCustomer button: check that the user really wants to delete the customer ... AJAX call to retrieve Customer object .onsuccess (AJAX ...

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 ...

Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development. There are performance benefits to using ...

Building a web application using non blocking calls to the data layer is a great way to increase the scalability of your system. Performing a task asynchronously frees up the worker thread to accept ...