Within these async functions, the "await" keyword pauses the execution until a promise is either resolved or rejected to let an asynchronous operation finish without blocking the whole program.

The async keyword is used to indicate that the ReadAsync () method is an asynchronous method. The “async” suffix is a convention that is followed to name an asynchronous method.

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 ...

When you mark a method as asynchronous using the “async” keyword, you just inform the compiler that the method can be split into multiple tasks — some of these tasks may execute asynchronously.

You want the responsiveness that asynchronous programming in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 provides, but also need your asynchronous methods to work with other code in your application. Here's how ...

If the method you call, say Task MethodA, internally wants to use await, then MethodA needs to be marked with the async keyword, async Task MethodA, but that won't matter to the caller of MethodA.

This appears to enable asynchronous behavior in a function. Inside the function, the Await keyword suspends the current method until the following action is completed.

.NET Framework 4.5 Beta not only brings the Async/Await keywords and language simplifications to C# and Visual Basic, but also adds asynchronous methods to several common I/O and data access ...