I've been reading up on async/await somewhat but there are still things I don't get. I have experience writing socket servers with the Begin/End pattern, but I find some of this async/await confusing.

Visual Studio Async is a powerful development framework, but it's important to understand how it works to avoid performance hits. In a recent online C# Corner column, "Exceptional Async Handling with ...

Asynchronous programming is a form of parallel programming that enables you to execute tasks separate from the main application thread and then notifies the thread when its execution is over.