How to get notification that a System.Threading.Tasks.Task has completed

Question

I am currently replacing some home baked task functionality with a new implementation using the new System.Threading.Tasks functionality found in .net 4.

I have a sl

Answer 1

You can use the ContinueWith function with your routine as a first argument, and a task scheduler as the second argument given by TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext().

It goes like this:

var task1 = new Task(() => {do_something_in_a_remote_thread();} );

task1.ContinueWith(() =>  {do_something_in_the_ui_thread();},
TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext());