I'm new to .Net 4.0's Tasks and I wasn't able to find what I thought would be a Task based replacement or implementation of a Timer, e.g. a periodic Task. Is there such a thing?
Update
It depends on 4.5, but this works.
public class PeriodicTask
{
public static async Task Run(Action action, TimeSpan period, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
while(!cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested)
{
await Task.Delay(period, cancellationToken);
if (!cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested)
action();
}
}
public static Task Run(Action action, TimeSpan period)
{
return Run(action, period, CancellationToken.None);
}
}
Obviously you could add a generic version that takes arguments as well. This is actually similar to other suggested approaches since under the hood Task.Delay is using a timer expiration as a task completion source.