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. With ...

Building a web application using non blocking calls to the data layer is a great way to increase the scalability of your system. Performing a task asynchronously frees up the worker thread to accept ...

I spent the day on Seesmic yesterday and had a 90-post conversation involving several of the members. I’ll say first of all that Seesmic has made TONS of improvements since Andrew Lipson gave me an ...

You should give your apps UIs that users enjoy. Unhappy users make for unhappy programmers—and sometimes out-of-work programmers. You need to make your UIs attractive, easy to use, and responsive.

To understand and appreciate the distinction between asynchronous programming without multiple threads and asynchronous programming that depends on additional threads, consider two examples. First, ...