Is there any course that explains the basic concepts of async programming?

I'm not aware of any, but it is a cool idea for a future course!

I've seen some related concepts presented in some of the other language courses, such as callbacks and promises in Javascript. But I haven't seen any courses specifically dedicated to asynchronous (concurrent/threaded/parallel, etc.) programming concepts.

It does sound like a neat idea, it would be nice to see some developed for the future.

Calin,

Asynchronous programming with C# is a topic that we're planning on covering in a future course. You can see our roadmap at https://trello.com/b/WfGXKHAo/treehouse-c-net-content-roadmap

Thanks ~James

Thanks James. I arrived here looking to ask the same thing. I'm currently working on a project involving async and await. My hang up is reporting back progress to the UI. For now I'll scour the internet and get it figured out. I always go back to my Treehouse courses though to further solidify my knowledge of the subject when it's something covered here.

This is a desktop program using windows forms. The 4 long running tasks being run are:

*Pulling 2 columns from a group of 4 to 6 csv files of the same format (weekly UPS shipping bills) and adding them to a list.

*Loading another csv of different format (a shipping manifest program log) into another list

*Combining / joining these 2 lists into another list that lays out all data in one place.

*Writing out this combined list to a csv file for the accounting department to work with.

The csv file that this generates shows what the shipping manifest quoted for a shipping rate vs what UPS actually charged to ship each package. UPS has a lot of surcharges, fees and adjustments. Sometimes what the shipping program thinks you paid to ship is not what UPS ends up charging you and you only know the true UPS ship charge after they close their weekly invoice. The output csv file can contain between 60,000 and 100,000 rows so it takes a while.

My goal for reporting progress was to let the user know which one of the 4 steps it's on and also an 'X out of X records processed' type of message. At the moment the program works and provides meaningful data, which is the most important part. I was just trying to report progress to expand my knowledge of the Async process.

A future course using an example similar to this would be awesome! I'm bias though! On that same note, windows form app best practice courses would be wonderful too. Many tutorials and books only seem to focus on console apps. Nearly everything I do is windows form based so I always take what I learn and adapt it to windows forms.

Thanks for reading! -Matt