From Zero to Hero: Asynchronous Programming in C#

Learn how to master asynchronous programming with async await in C#

About This Course

C# is one of the languages that pioneered an exquisite way to write asynchronous code with the introduction of async await. Even though it's been many years since the introduction of the feature, on the surface level, it can still be hard for developers, junior or senior, to understand how the feature works. Not only that, but it can also be very easy to get wrong once you go outside the common happy paths for which you might use it. In this course, Brandon Minnick will teach you everything you need to know to master asynchronous programming using async await in C# and .NET.

Course Curriculum

3h 53m 6 sections
Welcome
01:05 Free preview
What will you learn in this course?
01:46 Free preview
Who is the course for and prerequisites
00:49 Free preview
Life Before Async Await
11:30
Using Async
05:47
Parallel vs Async
04:03
What is Task? What is Thread?
03:13
Async Await Example
06:48
Decompiled Code
24:37
Review
02:16
Introduction
01:12
Run
08:14
ContinueWith
17:15
Wait
07:09
Delay
05:18
Await
07:08
Introduction
02:10
Async Void
14:18
CancellationToken, ConfigureAwait, .Wait() and .Result
20:05
IAsyncEnumerable
21:17
Returning a Task and ValueTask
12:12
Review
14:28
Introduction
01:24
ThreadStatic
05:00
Principal
07:40
ExecutionContext
13:33
SynchronizationContext
12:39

Meet Your Instructor

Brandon Minnick

Brandon Minnick

Brandon is a Microsoft MVP and a .NET Developer Advocate at AWS, where he gets to work closely with the developer community to help fellow mobile app and cloud developers make 5-star apps. Brandon has nearly a decade of experience creating iOS and Android apps in C#, previously working at both Xamarin and Microsoft. He is also the lead maintainer of the popular .NET NuGet packages ".NET MAUI Community Toolkit" and “AsyncAwaitBestPractices." Brandon is an avid mobile app developer who loves to code and has contributed to and published countless apps!

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