Cooperatively pausing async methods

Stephen Toub - MSFTJanuary 13, 2013Jan 13, 201301/13/13

Recently I was writing an app that processed a bunch of files asynchronously.  As with the Windows copy file dialog, I wanted to be able to provide the user with a button that would pause the processing operation.To achieve that, I implemented a simple mechanism that would allow me to pass a “pause token” into the async method