Several classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) provide both synchronous and asynchronous method signatures. Because a synchronous method call can create a delay in program flow, an ...

Chances are you don’t like wasting time in useless meetings. People often say “this meeting should have been an email.” But what about one-to-one calls? Could they be a series of voice messages and ...

Make a system call now, get the result later: a proposed kernel patch expands the possibilities for asynchronous I/O. The kernel’s support for asynchronous I/O is incomplete, and it always has been.

Here's some pseudocode I want to use when the user clicks my deleteCustomer button: check that the user really wants to delete the customer ... AJAX call to retrieve Customer object .onsuccess (AJAX ...

I have a stored procedure within MS SQL which runs a program. I would like to, from within SQL, call this stored procedure a few hundred times but I do not want to wait for instance 1 to finish before ...

Asynchronous code (async code) says: go do something while I do other things, then let me know what happened when the results are ready. Also known as concurrency, async is important in a variety of ...

Learn how to use asynchronous programming in Python 3.13 and higher. Get more done in less time, without waiting. Asynchronous programming, or async, is a feature of many modern languages that allows ...

The .NET Framework gives you three different ways to call a Web Service. However, depending on your scenario, the latest and greatest object isn’t necessarily your best choice. If you’re going to call ...