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Published inAug 2022
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781803243672
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Alvin Ashcraft
Alvin Ashcraft
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Alvin Ashcraft

Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer and developer community champion with over 25 years of experience in software development. Working primarily with Microsoft Windows, web, and cloud technologies, his career has focused primarily on the healthcare industry. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP 11 times, most recently as a Windows Dev MVP. Alvin works in the Philadelphia area for Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, as a principal software engineer. He is also a board member of the TechBash Foundation, where he helps organize the annual TechBash developer conference. He has previously worked for companies such as Oracle, Genzeon, CSC, and ITG Pathfinders. Originally from the Allentown, PA area, Alvin currently resides in West Grove, PA with his wife and three daughters.
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  1. What type should every async method return?
  2. Which method can be used to await multiple tasks?
  3. Which method to start a new task accepts TaskDispatcher as one of the parameters?
  4. When calling an async method, what type of thread will execute the task?
  5. What method should be used in a WPF application when updating a user control from a background thread?
  6. Which method should be used on a WinForms control to execute an action on the main thread but not wait for the method to complete?
  7. In WinForms, how can you check whether calling Invoke is necessary?
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Published in: Aug 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803243672

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Alvin Ashcraft

Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer and developer community champion with over 25 years of experience in software development. Working primarily with Microsoft Windows, web, and cloud technologies, his career has focused primarily on the healthcare industry. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP 11 times, most recently as a Windows Dev MVP. Alvin works in the Philadelphia area for Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, as a principal software engineer. He is also a board member of the TechBash Foundation, where he helps organize the annual TechBash developer conference. He has previously worked for companies such as Oracle, Genzeon, CSC, and ITG Pathfinders. Originally from the Allentown, PA area, Alvin currently resides in West Grove, PA with his wife and three daughters.
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