Task-based Asynchronous Pattern

Microsoft describes the pattern as follows: “The Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP) is a new pattern for asynchrony in the .NET Framework. It is based on the Task and Task<TResult> types in the System.Threading.Tasks namespace, which are used to represent arbitrary asynchronous operations.” Much greater support will be added for this pattern in future version of the .NET framework. However, there is no reason we can’t make use of the pattern today.