PDC10 Async Round-up

For many developers the yesterday’s C#5/VB11 Async news was pretty exciting. There’s a great deal of information, resources, downloads, etc available so instead of blogging about specific posts like I usually do, I’m instead going to do a quick round-up.

[Last Update On: 11/10/2010]

Original PDC Session Announcement

• Microsoft PDC - The Future of C# and Visual Basic

Channel 9 Videos

• Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing Async – Simplifying asynchronous programming
• Lucian Wischik: Inside VB.NET Async
• Mads Torgersen: Inside C# Async
• Stephen Toub: Task-Based Asynchrony with Async
• Visual Studio Async: Meet the team

Blog Posts

• amazedsaint's .net journal - C# 5.0 Asynchrony – A Quick Look at async/await in the Async CTP
• DOT NET TRICKS - C# 5.0 Asynchronous Made Easy
• Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog - What is Visual Studio Async?
• I Programmer - Async, Await and the UI problem
• I Programmer - Microsoft's new way with parallel code
• IanG on Tap - C# 5 Async Exception Handling
• Jon Skeet: Coding Blog - C# 5 async and choosing terminology: why I'm against "yield"
• Jon Skeet: Coding Blog - C# 5 async: experimenting with member resolution (GetAwaiter, BeginAwait, EndAwait)
• Jon Skeet: Coding Blog - C# 5 async: investigating control flow
• Lars Wilhelmsen - TaskWsdlImportExtension–a hidden gem in the C# vNext async CTP samples
• Michael Crump - Visual Studio Async CTP for the rest of us…
• Patrick Smacchia [MVP C#] - C# and VB.NET vNext
• Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog - A New Asynchronicity Awaits You
• Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog - More on Async Functions
• Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog - Testing Strategies Involving Async Functions
• Reed Copsey, Jr. - C# 5 Async, Part 1: Simplifying Asynchrony – That for which we await
• Smart Software - Building Iterators Using Asynchronous Methods
• ThomasP.Net - Asynchronous C# and F# (I.): Simultaneous introduction
• ThomasP.Net - Asynchronous C# and F# (II.): How do they differ? 

MSDN Blog Posts

• C# Frequently Asked Questions - What’s Next in C#? Get Ready for Async!
• Don Syme's WebLog on F# and Related Topics - C# and VB - towards joining F# with asynchronous programming support
• Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Asynchrony in C# 5, Part One
• Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Asynchronous Programming in C# 5.0 part two: Whence await?
• Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Three: Composition
• Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Asynchrony in C# 5.0 part Four: It's not magic
• Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Asynchrony in C# 5 Part Five: Too many tasks
• Jason Zander's WebLog - Tutorial: Pic Viewer Revisited on the Async CTP
• Kyle McClellan - Using the Visual Studio Async CTP with RIA Services
• Lucian's VBlog - Async CTP: developer stories
• Somasegar's WebLog - Making Asynchronous Programming Easy
• The Visual Basic Team - Announcing the Async CTP for Visual Basic (and also Iterators!)
• The Wayward WebLog - Elegance in Asynchrony
• Tim Sneath - PDC10: The Future of C# and Visual Basic 

Other Link Posts

• Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew - Dew Drop – October 29, 2010
• Jason Haley - Interesting Finds: October 29, 2010
• The Morning Brew - The Morning Brew #718

News Articles

• InfoWorld - Microsoft hails async programming for Visual Basic, C#

Microsoft Downloads

• C# Language Specification for Asynchronous Functions
• Introduction to TPL Dataflow
• Task-based Asynchronous Pattern
• Visual Basic Language Specification for Asynchronous Functions and Iterators
• Visual Studio Async CTP
• Whitepaper: Asynchrony in .NET

Visual Studio Gallery 

• Microsoft Visual Studio Async CTP
  

As I find more in the coming week or so, I’ll update this list…

 

Update 10/30/2010:
Added: amazedsaint's .net journal - C# 5.0 Asynchrony – A Quick Look at async/await in the Async CTP
Added: Jon Skeet: Coding Blog - C# 5 async and choosing terminology: why I'm against "yield"
Added: Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog - What is Visual Studio Async?

Update 11/1/2010:
Added: Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Three: Composition
Added: IanG on Tap - C# 5 Async Exception Handling
Added: I Programmer - Async, Await and the UI problem
Added: Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog - More on Async Functions
Added: Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog - A New Asynchronicity Awaits You
Added: Jon Skeet: Coding Blog - C# 5 async: experimenting with member resolution (GetAwaiter, BeginAwait, EndAwait)
Added: Jon Skeet: Coding Blog - C# 5 async: investigating control flow

Update 11/2/2010:
Added: DOT NET TRICKS - C# 5.0 Asynchronous Made Easy
Added: ThomasP.Net - Asynchronous C# and F# (II.): How do they differ?

Update 11/3/2010:
Added: Kyle McClellan - Using the Visual Studio Async CTP with RIA Services
Added: Smart Software - Building Iterators Using Asynchronous Methods
Added: The Wayward WebLog - Elegance in Asynchrony

Update 11/4/2010:
Added: Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Asynchrony in C# 5.0 part Four: It's not magic

Update 11/5/2010:
Added: Visual Studio Gallery - Microsoft Visual Studio Async CTP
Added: Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog - Testing Strategies Involving Async Functions
Added: Lars Wilhelmsen - TaskWsdlImportExtension–a hidden gem in the C# vNext async CTP samples

Update 11/10/2010:
This will likely be the last Round-Up update…
Added: Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Asynchrony in C# 5 Part Five: Too many tasks
Added: Tim Sneath - PDC10: The Future of C# and Visual Basic