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>>C# 5! You're killing me! (sigh)
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>>I guess Bill Wagner gets to write another book.
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>The one I ordered turned up today. Even without reading it all I can see a lot of real meat in there and have already ordered the Net4 version.......
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>>OK, tech discussion -- asynchronous methods. I know what asynchronous means so have an idea. How is this a good thing?
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>Well (now that I've calmed down) I guess I can see that all that asynchronous methods will do is make the implementation of multi-threading code simpler and more readable. Or as you querying the basic benefits of multi-threading in the first place ?
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Many years ago I worked on an application that did almost all updates asynchronously. You and Craig are right that it makes things seem faster to the user. The only downside is the user is left to assume the updates were successful, when that may not be the case.
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