Great explanation. Can't wait to finish downloading Windows 8 to start playing with it.
Asynchronous API that will really make a difference for the end user, right? There won't be any more waiting for UI to unfreeze :)
Asynchronous API that will really make a difference for the end user, right? There won't be any more waiting for UI to unfreeze :)
Even the use cases that are not covered by the two keywords, like fetching a whole bunch of stuff together or issuing a lot of requests and having the data trickle in as they are completed one by one are handled easily with the Task API, to the point where you have WhenAny and WhenAll methods and you just do "await Task.WhenAll(tasks)".