Resources: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Play Books The book's web site (O'Reilly) – downloads, errata etc A while ago I was attending one of the Developer, Developer, Developer conference in Reading, and I heard Alex Davies give a talk about actor[...]

A while I ago I blogged about what had changed under the hood of async between the CTP and the VS11 Preview. Well, now that the VS11 Beta is out, it's time to do it all again... Note that the code in this post is in the Eduasync codebase, under a differe[...]

Today's post involves the MagicOrdering project in source control (project 28). When I wrote part 16 of Eduasync, showing composition in the form of majority voting, one reader mailed me a really interesting suggestion. We don't really need to wait for a[...]

In preparation for CodeMash, I've been writing some more async code and decompiling it with Reflector. This time I'm using the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview - the version which installs alongside Visual Studio 2010 under Windows 7. (Don't ask me abou[...]

In the last post I showed a method to implement "majority voting" for tasks, allowing a result to become available as soon as possible. At the end, I mentioned that I was reasonably confident that it worked because of the unit tests... but I didn't show t[...]