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.

Microsoft is fitting its Visual Basic and C# languages with an asynchronous programming model to help developers accommodate the growing complexity in applications.

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 ...

Asynchronous programming in JavaScript leverages features like callbacks, promises and async/await to sidestep this issue by allowing other code to run in the meantime.

Using callback-passing for asynchronous actions does not compose very well and might create complex flows of passing callbacks around to handle return values. The JavaScript community is aware of ...

I'm a grad student in a research lab focused on asynchronous parallel programming. Without very careful discipline, it's too hard for us.