Basic asynchronous operations
Developers, novice and hobbyist can avoid performance bottlenecks and enhance the overall responsiveness of your application by using asynchronous programming. Asynchrony is essential for activities that are potentially blocking, such as when your application accesses the web or local.
Access to a web or local resource sometimes is slow or delayed. If such an activity blocks within a synchronous process, the entire application must wait. In an asynchronous process, the application can continue with other work that does not depend on the web resource until the potentially blocking task finishes.
There are many long time coders using BackgroundWorker class which works for desktop and web applications while working with the await operator Jump and various .NET classes which offer asynchronous methods and/or running synchronous operations from a Task Jump offers more flexibility. Intent is to provide simple to intermediate code samples to assist developers, novice and hobbyist a framework to work with asynchronous operations using the await operator in tangent with Task.
See the following GitHub repository for several code samples done with Visual Studio 2017 and will work with Visual Studio 2019. For a breakdown of code, see Microsoft TechNet article.
Important, for the project SqlServerSimpleAsync, open DataScripts.sql, inspect the path where the database will be created and ensure it's proper for your box. Next run the script in Visual Studio or from SSMS (SQL-Server Management Studio).
Finally, the best place to start is with AsynchronousCancellationTokenSample project.
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Please provide the same for VB6 then I will be impressed! :)
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yereverluvinuncleber
Please provide the same for VB6 then I will be impressed! :)
Never, ever touched VB6 and never will.
The code samples are not to impress but for learning.
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kareninstructor
Never, ever touched VB6 and never will.
You don't know what you've missed.
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Originally Posted by
yereverluvinuncleber
You don't know what you've missed.
I code in ASP.NET Core/Entity Framework Core and WPF/Entity Framework Core applications, doubt that Visual Basic classic can even come close to matching what can be done with ASP.NET Core/Entity Framework Core. And doubt Visual Basic classic can do cross platform.
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yereverluvinuncleber
Please provide the same for VB6 then I will be impressed! :)
Asynchronous methods are a compiler feature. You can't do this in VB6 without a new compiler.
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kareninstructor
I code in ASP.NET Core/Entity Framework Core and WPF/Entity Framework Core applications, doubt that Visual Basic classic can even come close to matching what can be done with ASP.NET Core/Entity Framework Core. And doubt Visual Basic classic can do cross platform.
Nah it can't. There are no equivalents in the VB6 space to match heavyweights like ASP.Net, WPF and EF. There's a library called vbRichClient that VB6 users use which aims to bring a lot of modern features to VB6 and it's really good but it hardly compares to these titans in the .Net ecosystem. You're still going to have to do a lot and I mean a lot of leg work on your own to match the power and flexibility of something like EF or WPF.
