Several classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) provide both synchronous and asynchronous method signatures. Because a synchronous method call can create a delay in program flow, an ...

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You want the responsiveness that asynchronous programming in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 provides, but also need your asynchronous methods to work with other code in your application. Here's how ...

The Async CTP and async and await keywords allow C# (and VB) developers to easily create more responsive applications. Here's how to get started with the Async CTP. The Async Community Technology ...

Asynchronous programming allows you to execute tasks without holding up the execution flow or responsiveness of your application. By taking advantage of asynchronous methods to perform ...

Exception handling is the technique of handling runtime errors in an application. Asynchronous programming allows us to perform resource-intensive operations without ...

In this paper we present the implementation of simultaneous method for the determination of polynomial roots on a distributed memory multicomputer. The total cost of such a parallelization per ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 71, No. 239 (Jul., 2002), pp. 1105-1135 (31 pages) We analyze the convergence rate of an asynchronous space decomposition method for constrained convex minimization in ...