I have hit the proverbial wall trying to figure out how to populate an NSImage with data returned from an asynchronous NSURLConnection in my desktop app (NOT an iPhone application!!). Here is the ...

Did anyone hear about asynchronous executing of an EF query? I want my items control to be filled right when the form loads and the user should be able to view the list while the rest of the items ...

I m new to PHP. I am familiar with ASP.NET which support asynchronous programming. That is, if one request needs to do some I/O job. It is suggested to program the web page with BeginProcess/...

I have a method that is asynchronously called when System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.BeginRead completes. skDelegate = New AsyncCallback(AddressOf skDataReceived) skStream.BeginRead(skBuffer, 0, ...

What s is the advantage of using Asynchronous processing in SQL Server over .NET Asynchronous processing? Aren t they the same? I have a hard time to understand what is the benefit of using ...

How to cancel an asynchronous call? The .NET APM doesn t seem to support this operation. I have the following loop in my code which spawns multiple threads on the ThreadPool. When I click a button on ...

Why does the delegate need to call the EndInvoke before the method fires? If i need to call the EndInvoke (which blocks the thread) then its not really an asynchronous call is it? Here is the code ...

Here s a snippet of code I m using in a loop: while True: print loop rlist, wlist, xlist = select.select(readers, [], [], TIMEOUT) print selected # do stuff At a certain point, ...