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AOP – using PostSharp attributes with async Task/Task<T> methods

.Net, Aspect Oriented Programming, Async, PostSharp, Programming

NOTE: if you’re unfamiliar with how PostSharp works under the hood, I highly recommend that you check out Dustin Davis‘ excellent PostSharp Principles series of blog posts here. The Problem The new async/await keywords in C# are pretty awesome, and makes life an awful lot easier when writing asynchronous and non-blocking IO code. However, for …

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C# – beware of async void in your code

.Net, Async, C#, Programming

In general, when you see async void in your code it’s bad news, because: you can’t wait for its completion (as mentioned in this post already) any unhandled exceptions will terminate your process (ouch!) Suppose you have a timer event that fires every once in a while and you want to do some asynchronous …

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