All posts tagged with "Tasks and threads"

When using tasks you at some point come across having to return a Task without actually having a Task to return. The usual case is in »

You are likely here because you are trying to make your main method use the async keyword. The gotcha I ran into - which is quite »

What you are likely looking for is the method Task.WaitAll(task1, task2, task3..);. The method allows you to wait for several tasks to finish, even »

With .Net 6 we got the new Parallel.ForEachAsync method from the parallel library. Previously we had to make do with Parallel.ForEach method which had »

So you are likely here because you cannot remember the syntax for returning a task with a named tuple, in short you are likely just looking »

I recently stumbled upon some code which looked something like the following: var ct = new CancellationToken(); Task.Run(async () => { while (!ct.IsCancellationRequested) { CallToMethodThatMightThrowAnException(); await Task. »

I have not yet found a situation where I needed a thread instead of a Task. Threads are a lower level concept when compared to tasks. »

It is quite easy to start a new thread in C#. All you need is to instantiate a new object of the type Thread and call »

In this post I will show how the lock statement in C# works and what you should look out for when using it. It is well »

I had a discussion a couple of weeks ago about tasks and threads. It occurred to me that I had rarely used threads and mostly used »