The first challenge is to identify the operations that trigger I/O. A general rule of thumb in .NET is that, if a method has an asynchronous API (MethodAsync() variants), then it is declaring that it can be slow, and may be doing I/O work. Let's take a closer look at some of the different kinds of I/O.
Categories of I/O
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