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Mobile Development with .NET

You're reading from   Mobile Development with .NET Build cross-platform mobile applications with Xamarin.Forms 5 and ASP.NET Core 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204690
Length 572 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Understanding .NET
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with .NET 5.0 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Defining Xamarin, Mono, and .NET Standard 4. Chapter 3: Developing with Universal Windows Platform 5. Section 2: Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
6. Chapter 4: Developing Mobile Applications with Xamarin 7. Chapter 5: UI Development with Xamarin 8. Chapter 6: Customizing Xamarin.Forms 9. Section 3: Azure Cloud Services
10. Chapter 7: Azure Services for Mobile Applications 11. Chapter 8: Creating a Datastore with Cosmos DB 12. Chapter 9: Creating Microservices Azure App Services 13. Chapter 10: Using .NET Core for Azure Serverless 14. Section 4: Advanced Mobile Development
15. Chapter 11: Fluid Applications with Asynchronous Patterns 16. Chapter 12: Managing Application Data 17. Chapter 13: Engaging Users with Notifications and the Graph API 18. Section 5: Application Life Cycle Management
19. Chapter 14: Azure DevOps and Visual Studio App Center 20. Chapter 15: Application Telemetry with Application Insights 21. Chapter 16: Automated Testing 22. Chapter 17: Deploying Azure Modules 23. Chapter 18: CI/CD with Azure DevOps 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Asynchronous execution patterns

Tasks are generally used to create an easy sequential execution for asynchronous blocks. Nevertheless, in certain scenarios, waiting for a task to complete might be unnecessary or not possible. We can enumerate a couple of scenarios where awaiting a task is not possible or required:

  • If we are executing the asynchronous block, similar to the update user command, we would simply bind the command to the control and execute it in a throw-and-forget manner.
  • If our asynchronous block needs to be executed in a constructor, we will have no easy way to await the task.
  • If the asynchronous code needs to be executed as part of an event handler.

Multiple examples can be listed here regarding common concerns, such as the following:

  • Method declaration should not exhibit the async and void return types.
  • Methods should not be forced to execute synchronously with the Wait method or the Result property.
  • Methods that are dependent...
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