Dave Marini delves into the history of asynchronous programming on the .NET platform, tracing through the early days of the Asynchronous Programming Model to today’s async/await patterns.

I’ll be using ASP.NET Core 3.0 here. Select “API” as the project template to create a new ASP.NET Core API application.

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.

Take advantage of ValueTask in C# to avoid allocation when returning task objects from an asynchronous method ...