Consuming a WCF Service is pretty straight forward. What if we want to call a service operation which takes some time to complete? We need some asynchronous process to handle operation calls. This can enabled by checking ‘Generate asynchronous operations’ in the service reference settings dialog. More…
A very efficient and clean way of multi threaded iterating through some lengthy tasks, is by using Parallel.ForEach. It takes a lambda expression with the body to execute for each task in the provided list. In this case we download a couple of weblog homepages to a string and show the length of the downloaded result and the current thread id of the task. More…