Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Debugging Tools for Parallel Tasks

Visual Studio 2015 offers two useful tool windows that you can use for debugging purposes when working on both parallel tasks and loops. To understand how such tooling works, consider the following code that creates and starts three tasks:

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Sub CreateSomeTaks()     Dim taskA = Task.Factory.StartNew(Sub() Console.WriteLine("Task A"))     Dim taskB = Task.Factory.StartNew(Sub() Console.WriteLine("Task B"))     Dim taskC = Task.Factory.StartNew(Sub() Console.WriteLine("Task C")) End Sub

Place a breakpoint on the End Sub statement and run the code. Because the tasks work in parallel, some of them may be running at this point and others may not be. To understand what is happening, you ...