Multithreading with C# Cookbook - Second Edition

Chapter 4. Using the Task Parallel Library

In this chapter, we will dive into a new asynchronous programming paradigm, the Task Parallel Library. You will learn the following recipes:

• Creating a task
• Performing basic operations with a task
• Combining tasks together
• Converting the APM pattern to tasks
• Converting the EAP pattern to tasks
• Implementing a cancelation option
• Handling exceptions in tasks
• Running tasks in parallel
• Tweaking the execution of tasks with TaskScheduler

Introduction

In the previous chapters, you learned what a thread is, how to use threads, and why we need a thread pool. Using a thread pool allows us to save operating system resources at the cost of reducing a parallelism degree. We can think of a thread pool as an abstraction layer that ...