How to throttle multiple asynchronous tasks?

Question

I have some code of the following form:

static async Task DoSomething(int n) 
{
  ...
}

static void RunThreads(int totalThreads, int throttle) 
{
  var task         


        

Answer 1

Stephen Toub gives the following example for throttling in his The Task-based Asynchronous Pattern document.

const int CONCURRENCY_LEVEL = 15;
Uri [] urls = …;
int nextIndex = 0;
var imageTasks = new List>();
while(nextIndex < CONCURRENCY_LEVEL && nextIndex < urls.Length)
{
    imageTasks.Add(GetBitmapAsync(urls[nextIndex]));
    nextIndex++;
}

while(imageTasks.Count > 0)
{
    try
    {
        Task imageTask = await Task.WhenAny(imageTasks);
        imageTasks.Remove(imageTask);

        Bitmap image = await imageTask;
        panel.AddImage(image);
    }
    catch(Exception exc) { Log(exc); }

    if (nextIndex < urls.Length)
    {
        imageTasks.Add(GetBitmapAsync(urls[nextIndex]));
        nextIndex++;
    }
}