The Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP) is the newly provided asynchronous programming framework born in .NET 4. TAP provides features of APM and EAP with an added signaling lock like an API that offers a lot of interesting new features.
In .NET, this asynchronous job takes the name of a task. A task is also a class of the System.Threading.Tasks namespace. Here is a basic example:
var task = Task.Run(() =>
{
Thread.Sleep(3000);
//returns a random integer
return DateTime.Now.Millisecond;
});
Console.Write("Starting data computation...");
//waiting the completation
while (task.Status != TaskStatus.RanToCompletion)
{
Console.Write(".");
Thread.Sleep(100);
}
Console.WriteLine(" OK");
Console.WriteLine("END");
Console.ReadLine();The preceding example is similar to the first one shown about the APM. Although a lambda expression is used here to create an anonymous method implementation, it is the same...