Thursday, November 21, 2013

What's TaskCompletionSource good for?

I think the remarks on TaskCompletionSource(TResult) would be helpfull for you:


"In many scenarios, it is useful to enable a Task<TResult> to represent an external asynchronous operation. TaskCompletionSource<TResult> is provided for this purpose. It enables the creation of a task that can be handed out to consumers, and those consumers can use the members of the task as they would any other. However, unlike most tasks, the state of a task created by a TaskCompletionSource is controlled explicitly by the methods on TaskCompletionSource. This enables the completion of the external asynchronous operation to be propagated to the underlying Task. The separation also ensures that consumers are not able to transition the state without access to the corresponding TaskCompletionSource. For more information, see the entry The Nature of TaskCompletionSource<TResult> in the Parallel Programming with .NET blog.


The Parallel Extensions samples also contain examples of how to use TaskCompletionSource<TResult> ."


Personally I do not yet understand Async Programming enough to understand it, but the links at least should get you further.




Let's talk about MVVM: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/b1a8bf14-4acd-4d77-9df8-bdb95b02dbe2 Please mark post as helpfull and answers respectively.


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