Async Await Pitfalls / Guidelines - .NET User Group Zurich Presentation

Upcoming .NET User Forum Zurich / 6th July 2021

I am looking forward to give a talk about some insights and pitfalls of async / await.

I will talk about the differences between asynchronous and parallel programming. Also a brief outlook how the state machine internally works. Feel free to join here: https://www.meetup.com/dotnet-zurich/events/278916769/

The state machine in C# with async/await

You often here that the async/await keywords leads to a state machine. But what does that mean? Let's discuss this with a simple example.

ASP.NET Core - Why async await is useful

Did you ever wonder why you "should" use async and await in your ASP.NET Core applications? Most probably, you heard something about performance. And there is some truth to it, but not in the way you might think.

So let's discuss this with smaller examples.