There's a lot of confusion about async/await, Task/TPL and asynchronous and parallel programming in general, so Jeremy Clark is on a mission to inform developers on how to use everything properly.

Hello, I've been reading up on async/await somewhat but there are still things I don't get. I have experience writing socket servers with the Begin/End pattern, but I find some of this async/await ...

Dave Marini delves into the history of asynchronous programming on the .NET platform, tracing through the early days of the Asynchronous Programming Model to today’s async/await patterns.

Take advantage of the ability to create and consume data streams asynchronously in C# 8.0 to improve the performance of your applications.

Hence, you can take advantage of async and await to implement asynchronous file operations when working with .Net Framework 4.5 or later. You can learn more about async and await on MSDN.

Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development.

However in the example I gave, the async void HandleClient method, there is an await SslStream.ReadAsync (...) call done immediately, which is an async I/O operation that will not consume a thread ...