Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, get some hands-on practice, and explore this chapter's topics with deeper research.

Exercise 12.1 – test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

1. By convention, what suffix should be applied to a method that returns Task or Task<T>?
2. To use the await keyword inside a method, what keyword must be applied to the method declaration?
3. How do you create a child task?
4. Why should you avoid the lock keyword?
5. When should you use the Interlocked class?

Exercise 12.2 – explore topics

Use the following links to read more about this chapter's topics:

• Threads and threading: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6kac2kdh(v=vs.110).aspx
• Task parallelism (task parallel library): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd537609(v=vs.110).aspx
• await (C# reference): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/hh156528.aspx
• Asynchronous Programming with Async and Await (C# and Visual Basic): https...