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Non-Blocking Method Calls

Overview Non-blocking method calls are easy to use, have many interesting applications, and will be especially popular on the client side, where making a non-blocking call is only slightly more work than a standard call. Developers are encouraged not to overlook the improved server scalability offered by this powerful new COM feature.With the introduction of non-blocking method calls, Microsoft has placed a powerful new tool in the hands of Component Object Model (COM) developers. Clients can use non-blocking method calls to exploit parallelism without the pain of multi-threading, and servers can handle calls asynchronously for vastly improved scalability.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	August 1999
Format	White Papers
Topics	Scalability, Access Technologies

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