My question as the title suggest is about the background of 'async' and 'await'. Is it true to say that what the current thread reaches 'await' keyword, it goes to "sleep", and wakes up when the a...

I'm trying to understand some parts of Apache POI. For instance, i;m trying to get text (or table, etc.) from an existing docx file. For example there is a method getParagraph(..CTP p) in XWPFDocum...

I'm trying to get the hand of the new async CTP stuff and I'm probably confusing myself here.. I can have this "task method", with no problem: public static Task<String> LongTaskAAsync() { ...

I thought I'd experiment a bit with Scott Guthrie's latest post on code-first dev with Entity Framework 4. Instead of using Sql Server, I'm trying to use MySql. Here are the relevant parts of my we...