Is there a Task based replacement for System.Threading.Timer?

Question

I\'m new to .Net 4.0\'s Tasks and I wasn\'t able to find what I thought would be a Task based replacement or implementation of a Timer, e.g. a periodic Task. Is there such a

Answer 1

It's not exactly in System.Threading.Tasks, but Observable.Timer (or simpler Observable.Interval) from Reactive Extensions library is probably what you're looking for.