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

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3. Continuation and Nested Tasks

Vaskaran Sarcar¹  

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Kolkata, West Bengal, India

 

This chapter will give you an overview of task continuations, nested tasks, and related topics.

Continuation Tasks

Suppose, there are two tasks, called Task A and Task B. If you want to start executing Task B only after Task A, probably you’d like to use callbacks. But TPL makes it easy. It provides the functionality through a continuation task which is nothing but an asynchronous task. The idea is the same: once an antecedent task finishes, it invokes the next task that you ...