Async/Await
Async/Await As I am sure you are aware, this is not a new feature in .NET - having been around for over a year as part of .NET 4.5. There have been plenty of posts about it, and so I'm not going to go into a great deal of depth, as I am not an expert and there are people who have gone into it in more depth than I could. I just want to get a couple of the key concepts up and provide a laymans tilt on it. I've been using the language feature as part of a site I am developing as a platform to testbed a few technologies including: Knockout.Js, The continuous integration and continuous deployment capabilities of Visual Studio Online (formerly Team Foundation Service) WebAPI and integrating with 3rd party web services Some of the newer C# language features Bootstrap templates Stanford Core NLP for .NET The site is work in progress and is available @ http://wearedev.azurewebsites.net/ The main purpose of the site is as a front end for a simple aggregatio