http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2012/07/15/using-sqldatareader-s-new-async-methods-in-net-4-5-beta-part-2-examples.aspxIn the previous post about the new column-level asynchronous methods added to SqlDataReader (and DbDataReader ) we covered two new SqlDataReader methods ( IsDBNullAsync and GetFieldValueAsync&lt;T&gt; ), how data is read from the network by the data readeren-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2012/07/15/using-sqldatareader-s-new-async-methods-in-net-4-5-beta-part-2-examples.aspx#10420700Wed, 22 May 2013 20:05:59 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10420700schneider<p>so the topic is about async yet the sample calls all methods in sync mode? How is that a relevant example? </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10420700" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2012/07/15/using-sqldatareader-s-new-async-methods-in-net-4-5-beta-part-2-examples.aspx#10330744Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:17:47 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10330744Jerry Springer<p>It would be more readable if it was in ALL CAPS! The grayscale is good though. Matches VS...</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10330744" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2012/07/15/using-sqldatareader-s-new-async-methods-in-net-4-5-beta-part-2-examples.aspx#10330500Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:56:19 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10330500Nick<p>Switched off when the code wasn&#39;t formatted, unfortunately. Too much effort to work out what was going on.</p> <p>It would be great if you could fix this :)</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10330500" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2012/07/15/using-sqldatareader-s-new-async-methods-in-net-4-5-beta-part-2-examples.aspx#10330246Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:46:46 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10330246incola<p>Why don&#39;t you provide a method that could be used to determine whether calling non-async GetValue method is safe (in sequential access mode)? Having bool IsFieldDataReady(int columnIndex)) we could write simple code IsFieldDataReady() ? GetFieldValue() : await GetFieldValueAsync() to get a field&#39;s value with neither performance penalty (GetFieldValueAsync) nor risk of waiting (GetFieldValue).</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10330246" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2012/07/15/using-sqldatareader-s-new-async-methods-in-net-4-5-beta-part-2-examples.aspx#10330107Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:18:05 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10330107Serge<p>Couldn&#39;t you have use some sort of snippet previewer? Dare I suggest gists?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10330107" width="1" height="1">