Part 9: Understanding JavaScript Async Promises | Windows Store apps for Absolute Beginners with Jav

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In this lesson, we backtrack and learn about the Async features in the WinJS Library. We cover the basics of processes and threads, how the Windows 8 execution model has changed, how apps have traditionally handled long running operations, and how Async Promises simplifies development and debugging of async operations.

Asynchronous programming in JavaScript
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh700330.aspx

WinJS Promise Example
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Promise-e1571015

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