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Use Task.Run() in synchronous method to avoid deadlock waiting on async method?

UPDATE The purpose of this question is to get a simple answer about Task.Run() and deadlocking. I very much …

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List<T> thread safety

I am using the below code var processed = new List<Guid>(); Parallel.ForEach(items, item => { processed.Add(…

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Should I always use Task.Delay instead of Thread.Sleep?

I have recently seen several recommendations stating that Thread.Sleep should never be used in production code (most recently in …

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How does C# 5.0's async-await feature differ from the TPL?

I don't see the different between C#'s (and VB's) new async features, and .NET 4.0's Task Parallel Library. Take, …

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How to cancel a task that is waiting with a timeout without exceptions being thrown

When canceling a task that has a timeout (before the timeout has ended) using a cancel token an exception is …

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what is the correct way to cancel multiple tasks in c#

I have a button thats spawns 4 tasks. The same button changes to a cancel button and clicking this should cancel …

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How to get thread Id in C#

public bool HasItemsFromPropertySet(InfoItemPropertySet propertySet, CompositeInfoItem itemRemoved) { var itemAndSubItems = new InfoItemCollection(); if (itemRemoved != null) { itemAndSubItems.Add(itemRemoved); //foreach (InfoItem item …

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MaxDegreeOfParallelism = Environment.ProcessorCount slows down execution time on my CPU

I have the following program (that I got from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/csharpfaq/archive/2010/06/01/parallel-programming-in-net-framework-4-getting-started.aspx) that …

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How to process MSMQ messages in parallel

I'm writing a windows service to consume MSMQ messages. The service will have periods of high activity (80k messages coming …

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HttpClient in using statement causes Task cancelled

I created a FileResult : IHttpActionResult webapi return type for my api calls. The FileResult downloads a file from another url …

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