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Asynchronous Methods

Explore how to write asynchronous methods in C# using the async modifier and await operator. Understand how these methods run without blocking the main thread, improve code clarity, and handle return types with Task and Task<T>. This lesson helps you implement efficient asynchronous programming for responsive applications.

Introduction

We’ve seen how to perform some actions asynchronously using the Task class. Asynchronous execution allows us to delegate some parts of our program to background pool threads. If we have a method that has some asynchronous code inside, how can we inform its users that it’s asynchronous? How can others call this method asynchronously without encapsulating it inside a Task instance? Consider the following example:

public void Print()
{
	string
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