The latest version of Entity Framework makes it easier to write asynchronous code. Here's how to write that code, and more important, where you'll actually find it useful. There's one feature of ...

Even as a mid-level API ensconced in modern UI component-based Web frameworks and Web services technologies, the incoming Servlet 3.0 specification (JSR 315) will have groundbreaking impact on Java ...

The Asynchronous Invocation Application Block (AIAB) is a sophisticated tool designed to handle calling XML Web services asynchronously. Its primary use is to back up large middleware structures that ...

Comet has popularized asynchronous non-blocking HTTP programming, making it practically indistinguishable from reverse Ajax, also known as server push. In this article, Gregor Roth takes a wider view ...

In today's fast-paced digital world, enterprises are exposed to an exponentially increasing demand for handling identities. With an increased reliance on software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and ...

There's one feature of Entity Framework (EF) 6 that's only available in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or later: asynchronous processing. In this column, I'm going to look at some typical scenarios ...