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Mike Gavaghan

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Mike Gavaghan opines on C# and .Net in his blog Talk Nerdy To Me[^]. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer working as a C#/.Net software consultant based in Dallas, Texas.

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Asynchronous operations allow a program to perform time consuming tasks on a background thread while the main application continues to execute. However, managing multiple threads and cross-thread communication adds complexity to your code. Fortunately, the .NET Framework has a useful Design Pattern

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First Posted	19 Feb 2010
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