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Creating API with MVC ApiController part 3 - moving to asynchronous code

In my two previous posts ( part 1 and part 2 ) I described both simple and more advance approach of creating Rest-full API in MVC 4. Today I want to take another step forward and go a little deeper  in the creation of API. In this post I`m going to describe how we can create asynchronous API functions which bring better performance to our applications. The first thing that need to be understand is an asynchronous operation in .NET Framework. In .NET Framework 4.0 one of the most important changed was introducing Task  class.The Tasks in System.Threading.Tasks namespace are a method of fine grained parallelism, similar to creating and using threads, but they have a few key differences and the main difference is that Tasks in .NET 4.0 don’t actually correlate to a new thread, they are executed on the new thread pool that is being shipped in .NET 4.0. More about task you can read here  but to understand this article all you need to understand about the Task<T> class is that th

Creating API with MVC ApiController part 1 (with introducing to MVC design pattern)

Introduction to MVC In the last few years a software architecture changed very heavily. From desktop (forms) application which were very popular in Windows XP users move to SOA and now completely start using web based solution hosting in a cloud . Of course such evolution is not something bad, just the opposite in my opinion because web based application are highly scalable, better secured and available from each place in the Earth where user has an Internet connection. Such a big changes in software architecture cause that also programming model has to change. As response for this need, IT companies start working for on new technologies and improving existing ones. APIs became very popular tool  in a developer hands and whole communication became much more lightweight (by switching from XML to JSON) - mainly because the emerging market of mobile devices. In a new MVC version 4 also Microsoft introduce some improvements which allow developers creating web services (APIs) in well kn