A TcpListener opens a socket using TCP to listen for incoming connection requests. You can use AcceptTcpClientAsync to asynchronously get a TcpClient object, which you can then use to send and receive messages on the connection. AcceptTcpClientAsync Waits forever to get a connection. This is pretty much what you want most of the time… after … [Read more…]
In C# asynchronous programming, a CancellationToken allows you to stop a Task. This is especially useful if you have many Tasks running and want to gracefully shut down the program, or if you want to add a timeout to a Task. via GIPHY Creation CancellationTokens are created from a CancellationTokenSource. via GIPHY Usage The token … [Read more…]
JavaScript is pretty dumb. I know its the most popular language right now (due to the pervasiveness of browsers and other things that can run it), but, I mean, its just… dumb. Luckily TypeScript is pretty awesome. It takes a lot of what makes JavaScript stupid and fixes it. It makes it a lot more … [Read more…]
Sometimes you just need to kick off a process and not care about what happens to it. The old “fire-and-forget” scenario. Sometimes you want an action to happen after a certain duration of time. I recently had an application where I would detect a lost connection, and then enter a reconnect loop. After a set … [Read more…]