Async Await is one of the best feature that has changed a lot of dynamics in the recent past, but it has created same amount confusion and chaos. Lot of bad practices, wrong usage has plagued the very usage. I have refactored a very huge WPF code with lots of out ref and reference based codebase to new pattern, on covering ~80% of it, faced a few challenges reverted back. Then after a month took the task again and completed migration.
I do receive a lot of issues in PRs around this. Based on this feeling that there would be many others who are facing such isssue, this post is more targetted from experiences. There could be log of posts and videos and shit load of resources, but I would try to write it concisely and in simple language/. Again, comments are open for discussion.
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