Visual Studio Async aims to make asynchronous programming more approachable so code is as easy to write and maintain as with synchronous code Microsoft is fitting its Visual Basic and C# languages ...

The Async Community Technology Preview (CTP) is a freely available download for Visual Studio 2010. The Async CTP includes the async and await keywords that are being considered for the next ...

A couple of months ago, I did a column on using the new asynchronous methods that come with Entity Framwork (EF) 6.1. I got taken to task by my readers for creating overly complex solutions, who ...

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Microsoft is previewing extensions for .Net catering to asynchronous and event-based programming. [ Read InfoWorld’s report this week on Silverlight 4. ] “Rx has a strong theoretical basis by using ...

In mid-November, Microsoft researchers dropped a few hints about a new visualization language, codenamed Vedea, that was coming from Microsoft. On December 3, via a blog post, Microsoft officials ...