This is the nice tip to detect whether asynchronous postback caused or not. It will help to ASP.NET developers when working with ASP.NET Ajax framework in particular scenarios.

This article covers: In-line Functions, Function Overloading, and Calling Functions Asynchronously. Using these tips, you'll be able to write javascript functions that are more reusable and flexible.

My man-crush, Jeffrey Richter (of CLR Via C# fame) writes in the November issue of MSDN magazine about some of the recent additions to C# that makes the async programming model easier, plus other stuff.

Asyncify your code. Everybody's doing it. (Chicks|Dudes)'ll dig it. It'll make you cool. An opinion on .NET asynchronous patterns, a sample application exposing its own asynchronous API, and why you should be writing asynchronous code.

Do you knowh how to handle multiple asynchronous WebRequests? Do you know why the obvious way doesn't work?

This is a pretty slick idea.

In my opinion, one of the most unappreciated enhancements to ASP.NET 2.0 is the ease in which one can design their code to run asynchronously. In my experience, developers have blown off the idea in the beginning because of not realizing the true potential of asynchronous development in a web appli...

Let’s load the GridView asynchronous and make the page load faster and the perceived speed greater. All in 5 simple steps. This technique can be used with the Repeater, FormView, DataList and other controls.

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