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| | This blog is named after the Storm Petrel, Hydrobates pelagicus. It is a small bird, looking superficially like a swallow, and with a wingspan of less than 20 centimetres and a weight of about 30 grams. Looking back to my recent trip to South America, I see that the bird which made the biggest impression...
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| | Last time we looked into the boundary between the caller of an async method and the method itself. This time I'm going to show the same sort of "skeleton API" but for awaitable types. This is at the heart of C# 5's async feature: within an async method, you can include "await" expressions. You have...
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| | (This post covers project 12 in the source code.) Last time, we saw what happens when we have multiple await expressions: we end up with multiple potential states in our state machine. That's all fine, but there's a known bug in the current CTP which affects the code generated when you have multiple awaits in...
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