CHAPTER 8
Everything a Task
In Chapter 7 you discovered how the async and await keywords simplify the composing and consuming of Task-based asynchronous logic. Also, in Chapter 3 we mentioned that a Task represents a piece of asynchronous activity. This asynchronous activity could be compute but could as easily be I/O. An example of a noncompute Task is when you turned an IAsyncResult into a Task utilizing Task.Factory.FromAsyncResult. If you could literally represent anything as a Task, then you could have more areas of your code that could take advantage of the async and await keywords. In this chapter you will discover there is a very simple ...
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