The Old New Thing

C++/WinRT envy: Bringing thread switching tasks to C# (WPF and WinForms edition)

March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19

Raymond Chen

More magic tasks that break out of the thread configuration mold.

C++/WinRT envy: Bringing thread switching tasks to C# (UWP edition)

March 28, 2019 Mar 28, 2019 03/28/19

Raymond Chen

Magic tasks that break out of the thread configuration mold.

How do I wait for the completion of the delegate I passed to Core­Dispatcher.Run­Async and Thread­Pool.Run­Async?

March 27, 2019 Mar 27, 2019 03/27/19

Raymond Chen

You'll need your own signal.

When do Core­Dispatcher.Run­Async and Thread­Pool.Run­Async actions complete?

March 26, 2019 Mar 26, 2019 03/26/19

Raymond Chen

When the delegate returns, not when it completes.

Turning anything into a fire-and-forget coroutine

March 22, 2019 Mar 22, 2019 03/22/19

Raymond Chen

Turning on the metaprogramming.

Expressing fire-and-forget coroutines more explicitly, -or- How to turn any coroutine into fire-and-forget

March 21, 2019 Mar 21, 2019 03/21/19

Raymond Chen

Putting it at the call site instead of in the function itself.

winrt::fire_and_forget was too forgetful

March 20, 2019 Mar 20, 2019 03/20/19

Raymond Chen

Usually, you don't care when it finishes, as long as it does.