The problem with desynchronizing your code by moving parts of it into different tasks is that many of the resources your software wants to use—certain hardware, data structures in memory, files—can’t ...

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Fortunately, as mentioned earlier, asynchrony is the focus of the next version of the .NET Framework, with the introduction of the Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP). Furthermore, the TAP API will ...

This article introduces the TAP and the associated .NET language changes that streamline asynchronous programming and extend the multithreading enhancements in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. With ...

In the object-oriented software community, an architectural pattern defines a fundamental structural organization or schema for a software system. It provides a set of predefined subsystems, specifies ...