Late notice, but just to mention that Rachel Reese is giving an online session "Getting Started with F#" in about 90 minutes time! https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=M2JSRZ&role=attend&pw=NJ%22%256gC%21x When: Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013 12:00 PM (EDT)In this talk, we'll go over the fundamental concepts of F#, and functional programming in general; you'll get up to speed on the benefits and use cases of F#; and become familiarized with the language features, syntax, and constructs through a few si[...]

I was going to title this post as ‘Now for something completely different’ but felt that a little bit too Pythonesque, and when I thought about it a bit it isn’t really completely just slightly different, namely C# rather than my usual F# posts.

This article is inspired by an MVP summit talk about common pitfalls in the C# asynchronous programming model. I look at a number of easy to make mistakes when writing asynchronous code in C# and demonstrate that most of them would not easily happen when using F#.