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Toggle navigation Stephen Cleary Blog Book Projects Publications Contact All Blog Posts Feb 4, 2021 Asynchronous Messaging, Part 5: Miscellaneous Considerations Jan 28, 2021 Asynchronous Messaging, Part 4: Retrieve Results Jan 21, 2021 Asynchronous Messaging, Part 3: Backend Service Jan 14, 2021 Asynchronous Messaging, Part 2: Durable Queues Jan 7, 2021 Asynchronous Messaging, Part 1: Basic Distributed Architecture Jun 18, 2020 Win32 Service Gotcha: Recovery Actions Jun 11, 2020 A New Pattern for Exception Logging Jun 4, 2020 BackgroundService Gotcha: Application Lifetime May 28, 2020 BackgroundService Gotcha: Silent Failures May 21, 2020 BackgroundService Gotcha: Startup May 6, 2020 Using GitHub Actions for Pull Request Staging Environments, Part 4: Automated Deploy and Teardown Apr 24, 2020 Using GitHub Actions for Pull Request Staging Environments, Part 3: Implementing Deploy and Teardown Apr 9, 2020 Using GitHub Actions for Pull Request Staging Environments, Part 2: Slash Commands Apr 2, 2020 Using GitHub Actions for Pull Request Staging Environments, Part 1: Introduction Mar 28, 2020 ValueTask Restrictions Jun 7, 2018 Microsoft.Extensions.Logging, Part 2: Types May 31, 2018 Microsoft.Extensions.Logging, Part 1: Introduction May 24, 2018 Docker as a Tool Provider May 18, 2018 Using VSCode with PEGJS May 10, 2018 Unit Testing with Roslyn Apr 12, 2018 Slides Available: Code PaLOUsa 2018 Sep 12, 2017 Happy Birthday Async Aug 31, 2017 Azure Functions SPA Aug 25, 2017 Continuously Deploy Azure Functions from a GitHub Subfolder Jul 14, 2017 Announcing AsyncTime Jun 29, 2017 Happy birthday, iPhone! Jun 22, 2017 Async JavaScript Mar 30, 2017 ASP.NET Core SynchronizationContext Dec 1, 2016 Eliding Async and Await Nov 18, 2016 Azure Functions Nov 11, 2016 Streaming Zip on ASP.NET Core Nov 3, 2016 ZipArchive on Write-Only Streams Oct 27, 2016 Historical Asynchronous PushStreamContent Oct 20, 2016 Asynchronous PushStreamContent Oct 13, 2016 Announcement: Speaking at Milwaukee .NET Oct 6, 2016 Brazilian Portuguese translation of Async/Await Jun 28, 2016 DotNet / NetCore Versions May 17, 2016 React/Redux TodoMVC, Part 6: Refactoring Apr 12, 2016 React/Redux TodoMVC, Part 5: Dispatching Mar 8, 2016 React/Redux TodoMVC, Part 4: Debugging Mar 1, 2016 React/Redux TodoMVC, Part 3: State Feb 23, 2016 React/Redux TodoMVC, Part 2: Getting Started Feb 17, 2016 React/Redux TodoMVC, Part 1: Language and Tooling Feb 11, 2016 React/Redux TodoMVC, Part 0B: Why React? Why Redux? Feb 10, 2016 React/Redux TodoMVC, Part 0: Introduction Jan 21, 2016 DotNetApis Enters Beta May 27, 2015 ThatConference 2015 May 1, 2015 MVP Virtual Conference Apr 30, 2015 A Tour of Task, Part 10: Promise Tasks Mar 28, 2015 Continuous Integration and Code Coverage for Open Source .NET CoreCLR Projects Mar 21, 2015 GRDevDay 2015 Mar 5, 2015 Async Console Apps on .NET CoreCLR Mar 3, 2015 A Tour of Task, Part 9: Delegate Tasks Feb 5, 2015 A Tour of Task, Part 8: Starting Jan 29, 2015 A Tour of Task, Part 7: Continuations Jan 13, 2015 CodeMash 2015 Dec 5, 2014 A Tour of Task, Part 6: Results Oct 10, 2014 A Tour of Task, Part 5: Waiting Jun 14, 2014 Await in Catch and Finally Jun 12, 2014 A Tour of Task, Part 4: Id Jun 7, 2014 Fire and Forget on ASP.NET Jun 5, 2014 A Tour of Task, Part 3: Status May 29, 2014 A Tour of Task, Part 2: AsyncState and CreationOptions May 15, 2014 A Tour of Task, Part 1: Constructors May 5, 2014 Announcement: Concurrency in C# Early Release Ebook Available May 1, 2014 Announcement: MSDN Article on Async Services Apr 28, 2014 Announcement: Calculated Properties Apr 24, 2014 A Tour of Task, Part 0: Overview Apr 17, 2014 Announcement: Book Apr 8, 2014 Announcement: MSDN "async MVVM" articles Apr 7, 2014 Announcement: AspNetBackgroundTasks NuGet library Apr 4, 2014 Announcement: GRDevDay 2014 slides available Mar 13, 2014 A Cross-Domain Singleton Feb 27, 2014 Guidelines for Lock-free Programming Feb 20, 2014 Synchronous and Asynchronous Delegate Types Jan 9, 2014 Achievement Unlocked: Speak at CodeMash Jan 2, 2014 Announcement: Speaking at CodeMash 2014 Dec 12, 2013 Azure Cache Serialization (with JSON!) Nov 21, 2013 There Is No Thread Nov 14, 2013 Announcement: Nito.AsyncEx 2.0.0 Nov 11, 2013 Announcement: AsyncDiagnostics 1.0.1 Prerelease Nov 8, 2013 Task.Run Etiquette Examples: Even in the Complex Case, Don't Use Task.Run in the Implementation Nov 7, 2013 Task.Run Etiquette Examples: Don't Use Task.Run in the Implementation Nov 6, 2013 Task.Run Etiquette Examples: Don't Use Task.Run for the Wrong Thing Oct 17, 2013 Task.Run Etiquette and Proper Usage Oct 10, 2013 Managed Services Roundup Oct 3, 2013 ContinueWith is Dangerous, Too Sep 26, 2013 Task.Run vs BackgroundWorker: Conclusion Sep 19, 2013 Task.Run vs BackgroundWorker, Round 5: Reporting Progress Sep 12, 2013 Task.Run vs BackgroundWorker, Round 4: Cancellation Aug 29, 2013 StartNew is Dangerous Aug 13, 2013 Slides Available: ThatConference 2013 Aug 1, 2013 Task.Run vs BackgroundWorker, Round 3: Returning Results Jul 26, 2013 Task.Run vs BackgroundWorker, Round 2: Error Handling May 17, 2013 Announcement: Async Diagnostics May 16, 2013 Announcement: C# MVP May 15, 2013 Announcement: AsyncEx Stable Release May 14, 2013 Announcement: Speaking at ThatConference May 13, 2013 Announcement: Over 200 Posts! May 9, 2013 Task.Run vs BackgroundWorker, Round 1: The Basic Pattern May 2, 2013 Task.Run vs BackgroundWorker: Intro Apr 25, 2013 Recursive (Re-entrant) Locks Apr 18, 2013 UI Guidelines for Async Apr 11, 2013 CancellationToken Behavior with AsyncEx Coordination Primitives Apr 4, 2013 Implicit Async Context ("AsyncLocal") Mar 28, 2013 Task.CurrentId in Async Methods Mar 21, 2013 A Few Words on Task.Id (and TaskScheduler.Id) Mar 14, 2013 Async OOP 7: Design Mar 7, 2013 Async OOP 6: Disposal Mar 2, 2013 GRDevDay Slides and Code Mar 1, 2013 MSDN Article and GRDevDay Feb 28, 2013 Async OOP 5: Events Jan 31, 2013 Async OOP 4: State Jan 24, 2013 Async OOP 3: Properties Jan 17, 2013 Async OOP 2: Constructors Jan 10, 2013 Async OOP 1: Inheritance and Interfaces Jan 3, 2013 Async OOP 0: Introduction Dec 27, 2012 Async Producer-Consumer Queue 3: More Flexibility Dec 20, 2012 Async Producer-Consumer Queue 2: More Portability Dec 13, 2012 Returning Early from ASP.NET Requests Dec 6, 2012 Don't Block in Asynchronous Code Nov 15, 2012 Portable Class Library Enlightenment / Adaptation Nov 8, 2012 Async Producer/Consumer Queue using Dataflow Nov 8, 2012 And I'm Back! Oct 4, 2012 Introduction to Dataflow, Part 3 Sep 27, 2012 Introduction to Dataflow, Part 2 Sep 20, 2012 Introduction to Dataflow, Part 1 Sep 12, 2012 An Async Horror Story Sep 10, 2012 A New Web Site Aug 30, 2012 Async Coroutines Aug 23, 2012 Async and Scheduled Concurrency Aug 16, 2012 Windows 8 Boot to Differencing VHD Aug 16, 2012 Asynchronous Lazy Initialization Aug 9, 2012 Async Doesn't Change the HTTP Protocol Aug 2, 2012 Async WCF Today and Tomorrow Jul 26, 2012 Async Interop with IAsyncResult Jul 19, 2012 Thread is Dead Jul 12, 2012 Don't Block on Async Code Jun 21, 2012 ArraySegments Library Available May 17, 2012 Framework Profiles in .NET Feb 23, 2012 Thinking about Async Tasks Feb 16, 2012 Reporting Progress from Async Tasks Feb 9, 2012 Creating Tasks Feb 7, 2012 Async Unit Tests, Part 2: The Right Way Feb 6, 2012 Async Unit Tests, Part 1: The Wrong Way Feb 3, 2012 Async Console Programs Feb 2, 2012 Async and Await Dec 1, 2011 Out for a Bit Nov 26, 2011 Virtualizing Two Machines over Thanksgiving Oct 13, 2011 Option Parsing: Case Sensitivity Oct 6, 2011 Option Parsing: Positional Arguments Sep 9, 2011 Nito.AsyncEx Available Sep 1, 2011 The Async CTP "Why Do the Keywords Work THAT Way" Unofficial FAQ Aug 25, 2011 Option Parsing: Validation Aug 18, 2011 Option Parsing: Boolean Options Aug 11, 2011 Option Parsing: Argument Parsing Aug 4, 2011 Option Parsing: Preventing Multiple Argument Values Jul 28, 2011 Option Parsing: Allowing Multiple Argument Values Jul 21, 2011 Sy...