PluralSight – Asynchronous C# 5.0 (2013) [19 WMV]

In this advanced series, Jon Skeet shows us the new Asynchronous goodness available in C# 5.0. Managing threads, awaiting asynchronous calls – these are all made simple with a few new keywords and types. Along the way, Jon melts Rob’s brain routinely. All code for this course is available in Tekpub’s Github Repository: https://github.com/tekpub/DemoCode/tree/master/AsyncIntro
Authored by: Jon Skeet
Level: Intermediate

Table of Contents:

A Quick Tour of Async in C# 5

Introduction and Our Demo App (03:31)
The Race Condition (01:22)
Sharing Data Between Threads, the Hard Way (04:21)
Introducing async and await (12:05)
Going Deeper: What’s Going on Here? (06:35)
Handling Exceptions (04:17)
A Light Refactor, Wrapping Up Our Tour (06:39)

The Await Keyword

The Case for Using Async (08:04)
Await Basics (09:27)
A Walk Through Decompiled Async Code (27:49)

Blocking

What is Blocking? (06:56)
Let’s Block Some Threads (11:15)
What’s Going on Under the Hood? Do We Care? (05:17)

Parallelism

Parallelism Basics (15:39)
Parallel Tasks in Completion Order (09:22)

Testing

Basic Async Testing with MS Test (20:08)
Using NUnit and a Time Machine (11:36)
A Deeper Look at Skeet’s Time Machine (05:30)
Testing Summary, and We Say Goodbye (02:59)