Top "Task" questions

A task is an abstraction that is used to work with concurrency, it can denote operation that should be executed concurrently with the rest of a program.

Creating a task wrapper around an existing object

I have a method which returns a Task where the implementation may or may not need to perform a slow …

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C# - Get list of open tasks

I'm trying to find a way to get the open tasks in C#. I've been searching on google and can …

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Can .NET Task instances go out of scope during run?

If I have the following block of code in a method (using .NET 4 and the Task Parallel Library): var task = …

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How to set up a cron task in Plesk every 15 minutes?

I'm a total newbie with Plesk, and I'm wondering how to set up a cron task for executing http address, …

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Ruby: Accessing rake task from a gem without Rails

I'm aware that Rake tasks can be defined in a number of places within a Ruby gem: inside a Rakefile …

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iCloud Calender and task in Mozilla Thunderbird/Lightning

Does anyone know how i can get the calender and tasks from iCloud to Mozilla Thunderbird/Lightning - and tey …

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android GET_TASKS Permission Deprecated

I've used GET_TASKS permission in my app in order to get previous intent. private Intent getPreviousIntent(Intent newIntent) { final …

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Producer-Consumer waiting when queue is empty?

I have a list of work items that need to be processed in order. Sometimes the list will be empty, …

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What's the difference between mustRunAfter and dependsOn in Gradle?

Whether taskB mustRunAfter taskA, or taskB dependsOn taskA, it seems that taskA runs first, then taskB runs. What's the difference?

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Is catching TaskCanceledException and checking Task.Canceled a good idea?

There are some people on my team who really love coding with async Task. And sometimes they like to use …

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