Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET

Richard Blewett is a professional software developer and trainer living in Bristol in the UK. He has been writing software for over 20 years and has spent most of that time building distributed systems of one form or another. He first started writing multithreaded code in C on OS/2 and continued when moving to Windows, COM and .NET. Over the years he has built software for banks, insurance companies, travel companies, emergency services, health companies, and more. He is a co-founder of Rock Solid Knowledge and as well as writing software and consulting he regularly delivers training courses for DevelopMentor. He can often be found speaking at conferences including Tech Ed, DevWeek, Software Architect and BASTA. He has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP for C# and Connected Systems.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming Chapter 2: The Evolution of the .NET Asynchronous API Chapter 3: Tasks Chapter 4: Basic Thread Safety Chapter 5: Concurrent Data Structures and Primitives Chapter 6: Fast and Fluid: Building a Responsive UI Chapter 7: Async the .NET 4.5 Way - async and await Chapter 8: Everything is a Task Chapter 9: Server-side Async Chapter 10: Parallel Programming Chapter 11: Data Flow Constructs Chapter 12: Task scheduling Chapter 13: Debugging Async with Visual Studio Chapter 14: Debugging Async Beyond Visual Studio