How to track if an async/awaitable task is running

Question

I\'m trying to transition from the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern where I tracked running methods using unique id\'s and the asynoperationmanager.
As this has now bee

Answer 1

SemaphoreSlim queueToAccessQueue = new SemaphoreSlim(1);
object queueLock = new object();
long queuedRequests = 0;
Task _loadingTask;
public void RetrieveItems() {
  lock (queueLock) {
      queuedRequests++;
      if (queuedRequests == 1) { // 1 is the minimum size of the queue before another instance is queued
        _loadingTask = _loadingTask?.ContinueWith(async () => {
          RunTheMethodAgain();
          await queueToAccessQueue.WaitAsync();
          queuedRequests = 0; // indicates that the queue has been cleared;
          queueToAccessQueue.Release()
        }) ?? Task.Run(async () => {
          RunTheMethodAgain();
          await queueToAccessQueue.WaitAsync();
          queuedRequests = 0; // indicates that the queue has been cleared;
          queueToAccessQueue.Release();
        });
      }
  }
}
public void RunTheMethodAgain() {
  ** run the method again **
}

The added bonus is that you can see how many items are sitting in the queue!