Task Parallel Library (TPL)
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Purpose And Use Cases
The purpose of the Task Parallel Library is to simplify the process of writing and maintaining multithreaded and parallel code.
Some Use Cases*:
- Keeping a UI responsive by running background work on separate task
- Distributing workload
- Allowing a client application to send and receive requests at the same time (rest, TCP/UDP, ect)
- Reading and/or writing multiple files at once
*Code should be considered on a case by case basis for multithreading. For example, if a loop only has a few iterations or only does a small amount of the work, the overhead for parallelism may outweigh the benefits.
TPL with .Net 3.5
The TPL is also available for .Net 3.5 included in a NuGet package, it is called Task Parallel Library.
Related Examples
- Basic producer-consumer loop (BlockingCollection)
- Flowing execution context with AsyncLocal
- Parallel.For
- Parallel.ForEach
- Parallel.ForEach in VB.NET
- Parallel.Invoke
- Task.WhenAll
- Task.WhenAny
- Task: basic instantiation and Wait
- Task: cancelling using CancellationToken
- Task: handling exceptions (using Wait)
- Task: handling exceptions (without using Wait)
- Task: Returning a value
- Task: WaitAll and variable capturing
- Task: WaitAny