You can take advantage of asynchronous programming to perform resource-intensive operations without having to block on executing thread of your application. This increases the throughput while at the ...

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 ...

By understanding these two scenarios, it's clear why multithreading alone was not sufficient to address asynchrony. Although multithreading increases the frequency with which asynchrony occurs, the ...

It plays a central role in intelligent agent systems to model agents’ epistemic states and their changes. Asynchrony plays a key role in distributed systems, in which the messages transmitted may not ...

Microsoft is previewing extensions for .Net catering to asynchronous and event-based programming. [ Read InfoWorld’s report this week on Silverlight 4. ] “Rx has a strong theoretical basis by using ...

It plays a central role in intelligent agent systems to model agents' epistemic states and their changes. Asynchrony plays a key role in distributed systems, in which the messages transmitted may not ...