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async/await are just sugar over the much older asynchronous delegate pattern that has been in the language since day one. So yes, they were.

• dsego 13y ago
  are they widely used in APIs to e.g. send a query to the sql database or open a file?
  • jussij 13y ago
    Yes. In .Net 4.5 there are Async versions of the web, file, stream, image and SQL category of functions. It's also making its way into ASP.Net layer.