November 2010

.NET Parallel Programming

All about Async/Await, System.Threading.Tasks, System.Collections.Concurrent, System.Linq, and more…

Processing Sequences of Asynchronous Operations with Tasks

November 21, 2010 Nov 21, 2010 11/21/10

Stephen Toub - MSFT

Of late, I’ve seen multiple folks asking about how to use tasks to asynchronously execute a sequence of operations. For example, given three synchronous functions: public string DoA(string input); public string DoB(string aResult); public string DoC(string bResult); you could invoke these functions with code like...

New Feature? :: Delayed cancellation

November 4, 2010 Nov 4, 2010 11/4/10

Danny Shih

We’re interested in adding support for scheduling cancellation. For example: // Create a token source that will Cancel() after a delay var cts = new CancellationTokenSource(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));// And/or schedule a Cancel() call cts.CancelAfter(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));We’ve heard from many folks ...

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