Visual Basic® 2012 Unleashed, Second Edition

Foreword

From his blog posts (in Italian and English) to his forum answers, from his online articles to his code snippets, from his technical speeches and user-groups to his books, the breadth of Alessandro’s reach has been astounding.

Now is a particularly good time for Alessandro to write this book, because the current release of Visual Basic has so many new features. I’d like to tell the story behind the most important of them, “Asynchronous Programming,” explained in Chapter 44. We introduced this feature because everyone wants their interactive applications to be fast and responsive, but the code to achieve this has traditionally been too convoluted. Now, thanks to asynchronous programming, the code has become straightforward. Although the ...