How to limit the amount of concurrent async I/O operations?

Question

// let\'s say there is a list of 1000+ URLs
string[] urls = { \"http://google.com\", \"http://yahoo.com\", ... };

// now let\'s send HTTP requests to each of these          


        

Answer 1

Theo Yaung example is nice, but there is a variant without list of waiting tasks.

 class SomeChecker
 {
    private const int ThreadCount=20;
    private CountdownEvent _countdownEvent;
    private SemaphoreSlim _throttler;

    public Task Check(IList urls)
    {
        _countdownEvent = new CountdownEvent(urls.Count);
        _throttler = new SemaphoreSlim(ThreadCount); 

        return Task.Run( // prevent UI thread lock
            async  () =>{
                foreach (var url in urls)
                {
                    // do an async wait until we can schedule again
                    await _throttler.WaitAsync();
                    ProccessUrl(url); // NOT await
                }
                //instead of await Task.WhenAll(allTasks);
                _countdownEvent.Wait();
            });
    }

    private async Task ProccessUrl(string url)
    {
        try
        {
            var page = await new WebClient()
                       .DownloadStringTaskAsync(new Uri(url)); 
            ProccessResult(page);
        }
        finally
        {
            _throttler.Release();
            _countdownEvent.Signal();
        }
    }

    private void ProccessResult(string page){/*....*/}
}