What does System.Concurrency.AsyncLock do?

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Published on 2010-04-20T16:59:44Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 17:03 UTC
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The System.Reactive.dll adds a class AsyncLock to System.Concurrency. It has a single instance method, Wait, that takes an Action.

The documentation page I found just tells it it pre-release documentation, so I ask here: What does this class do?

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