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Writing non-blocking user-interfaces in F#

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:17:32 PM GMT Monday, June 13, 2011 2:50:06 PM GMT

F# asynchronous workflows are mainly used for non-blocking I/O and concurrency, but they provide nice abstraction for writing user interface interactions. This article shows an Silverlight example and explains how F# makes it easy to write code that avoids blocking the user-interface when performing CPU-intensive processing.

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tags: Silverlight, Async, User Interface, Asynchronous programming, FSharp, F#