Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Asynchronous I/O enables you to write scale-able and responsive applications. Keep in mind though that asynchrony is not a performance optimization for individual operation but rather a scalability option for operations in the aggregate.

In this presentation, I introduce the new async-await pattern of C# 5 and compare and contrast the old style (APM) Begin/End pairs of asynchronous capability as well as parallel capability

Part 2 is here youtube.com/watch?v=R8C5ycwG5CU&hd=1