Jan 22, 2013 · From my understanding one of the main things that async and await do is to make code easy to write and read - but is using them equal to spawning background threads to …

Are there any issues with using async/await in a forEach loop? I'm trying to loop through an array of files and await on the contents of each file. import fs from 'fs-promise' async function print...

AFAIK you don't gain anything by adding a second await and async inside Task.Run. And since you aren't passing parameters, that simplifies slightly more to await Task.Run( …

await client.CancelAsync(); throw; } } Note that this will not stop the Task you were waiting for and it will continue running. You'll need to use a different mechanism to stop it, such as the …

If there's no reason to disallow having the caller await your task, why disallow it? async methods that return void are special in another aspect: they represent top-level async operations, and …

Oct 14, 2015 · How can I define a class with await in the constructor or class body? For example what I want: import asyncio # some code class Foo(object): async def __init__(self, settings): …

I'm starting to learn about async / await in C# 5.0, and I don't understand it at all. I don't understand how it can be used for parallelism. I've tried the following very basic program: …

await someCall(); await anotherCall(); Do I understand it correctly that anotherCall() will be called only when someCall() is completed? What is the most elegant way of calling them in parallel? I …

Mar 4, 2015 · It's just a signal to the compiler that it's allowed to use the identifier await as a keyword, basically - to maintain backwards compatibility with older C# code.

Feb 3, 2014 · 89 An elegant way to wait for one function to complete first is to use Promises with async/await function.