WaitAll vs WhenAll

Question

What is the difference between Task.WaitAll() and Task.WhenAll() from the Async CTP ? Can you provide some sample code to illustrate the different

Answer 1

Task.WaitAll blocks the current thread until everything has completed.

Task.WhenAll returns a task which represents the action of waiting until everything has completed.

That means that from an async method, you can use:

await Task.WhenAll(tasks);

... which means your method will continue when everything's completed, but you won't tie up a thread to just hang around until that time.