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Task Programming in C# and .NET: Modern Day Foundation for Asynchronous Programming
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Task Programming in C# and .NET: Modern Day Foundation for Asynchronous Programming

by Vaskaran Sarcar
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
183 pages
2h 22m
English
Apress
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V. SarcarTask Programming in C# and .NETApress Pocket Guideshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1279-8_2

2. Task Creation and Execution

Vaskaran Sarcar1  
(1)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
 

This chapter helps you dive into task programming. Here, you’ll learn different ways to create and execute tasks. Once you execute a task, you may be interested to see the result. It means that you need to wait for the task completion. This is why this chapter discusses different kinds of waiting mechanisms as well.

Creating and Executing a Task

You can create and execute tasks in different ways. Suppose you have the following code:
static void DoSomeTask()
{
    // Some code
}

Given ...

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