C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 - Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition

Nested and child tasks

Add a new console application project named NestedAndChildTasks.

In Visual Studio 2017, in the solution's Properties, remember to change Startup Project to Current selection.

Ensure the following namespaces have been imported:

using System; using System.Threading; using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.Diagnostics; using static System.Console; 

Inside the Main method, add the following statements:

var outer = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => {    WriteLine("Outer task starting...");    var inner = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>    {       WriteLine("Inner task starting...");       Thread.Sleep(2000);       WriteLine("Inner task finished.");    }); }); outer.Wait(); WriteLine("Outer task finished."); WriteLine("Press ENTER to end."); ReadLine(); ...