Doing a little refresher on ASP.NET and optimizing performance thru threading/asynchronous calls. It’s a very important topic that not many developers consider (or consider properly) when building applications.

This first article from MSDN serves as an excellent low-level discussion of how threading is done, as well as discussing the alternatives and their pros/cons.

Right now I’m reading through another article I just found on MSDN in a similar vein, talking about using asynchronous calls with web services. I’ve seen similar articles before, hopefully this one will be sufficient, otherwise I’ll have to go hunt down those other sites.