Stephen Cleary is the author of the Concurrency in C# Cookbook and a Microsoft MVP. He has also written many blog posts on asynchronous programming.

We discuss:

• Why he calls manual thread creation legacy code
• Using Async/Await and the Task Parallel Library instead of Threads
• APIs to avoid when writing concurrent applications
• Why you shouldn't write TCP Sockets
• Continuously reading from a socket to detect errors
• Building state machines to manage socket connections

Related Links:

• @aSteveCleary
• Getting Started with Async/Await
• TCP/IP Sockets
• There is no Thread
• Concurrency in C# Cookbook

Music by Crystal Cola:

• Intro: 12:30 AM
• Outro: Orion