Posts Tagged ‘Asynchronous’

  Sometime application has to perform long-running tasks. In a typical application, tasks are processed synchronously. When one task completes, the next begins execution, and this continues in a sequential fashion. So, what would happen to the UI while waiting for a long-running task to finish? Often the UI becomes unresponsive and may even freeze temporarily until a long-running task completes. This is referred to as blocking on ... Full story