Cancelling a Task is throwing an exception

Question

From what I\'ve read about Tasks, the following code should cancel the currently executing task without throwing an exception. I was under the impression that the whole poin

Answer 1

Another note about the benefit of using ThrowIfCancellationRequested rather than IsCancellationRequested: I've found that when needing to use ContinueWith with a continuation option of TaskContinuationOptions.OnlyOnCanceled, IsCancellationRequested will not cause the conditioned ContinueWith to fire. ThrowIfCancellationRequested, however, will set the Canceled condition of the task, causing the ContinueWith to fire.

Note: This is only true when the task is already running and not when the task is starting. This is why I added a Thread.Sleep() between the start and cancellation.

CancellationTokenSource cts = new CancellationTokenSource();

Task task1 = new Task(() => {
    while(true){
        if(cts.Token.IsCancellationRequested)
            break;
    }
}, cts.Token);
task1.ContinueWith((ant) => {
    // Perform task1 post-cancellation logic.
    // This will NOT fire when calling cst.Cancel().
}

Task task2 = new Task(() => {
    while(true){
        cts.Token.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
    }
}, cts.Token);
task2.ContinueWith((ant) => {
    // Perform task2 post-cancellation logic.
    // This will fire when calling cst.Cancel().
}

task1.Start();
task2.Start();
Thread.Sleep(3000);
cts.Cancel();