Chapter 11: Guidelines for designing asynchronous APIs

This chapter presents asynchronous API design principles that help callers understand, combine, cancel, and correctly manage asynchronous operations.

Topics covered

• The Async suffix, method signatures, and cancellation conventions.
• Exception, cancellation, timeout, and synchronous/asynchronous API semantics.
• Design guidance for ValueTask, ConfigureAwait(false), and IAsyncDisposable.

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