Creating and starting a task

There are many ways in which we can create and run a task using the TPL. In this section, we will try to understand all of these approaches and do a comparative analysis wherever we can. First, you need to add a reference to the System.Threading.Tasks namespace:

using System.Threading.Tasks;

We will try to create a task using the following approaches:

• The System.Threading.Tasks.Task class
• The System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Factory.StartNew method
• The System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Run method
• System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Delay
• System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Yield
• System.Threading.Tasks.Task.FromResult<T> Method
• System.Threading.Tasks.Task.FromException and Task.FromException<T>
• System.Threading.Tasks.Task.FromCancelled and Task.FromCancelled<T>