Threading multiple async calls

Question

Part of my Silverlight application requires data from three service requests. Up until now I\'ve been chaining the requests so as one completes the other starts... until the

Answer 1

Take a look at this example:

Will fire Completed event and print 'done' to Debug Output once both services returned. Key thing is that waiting for AutoResetEvents happens in background thread.

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public partial class MainPage : UserControl
{
    public MainPage()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        Completed += (s, a) => { Debug.WriteLine("done"); };

        wrk.DoWork += (s, a) =>
            {
                Start();
            };

        wrk.RunWorkerAsync();
    }
    public event EventHandler Completed;

    private void Start()
    {
        auto1.WaitOne();
        auto2.WaitOne();

        Completed(this, EventArgs.Empty);
    }

    public AutoResetEvent auto1 = new AutoResetEvent(false);
    public AutoResetEvent auto2 = new AutoResetEvent(false);

    BackgroundWorker wrk = new BackgroundWorker();

    private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        ServiceReference1.Service1Client clien = new SilverlightAsyncTest.ServiceReference1.Service1Client();

        clien.DoWorkCompleted += new EventHandler(clien_DoWorkCompleted);
        clien.DoWork2Completed += new EventHandler(clien_DoWork2Completed);

        clien.DoWorkAsync();
        clien.DoWork2Async();
    }

    void clien_DoWork2Completed(object sender, SilverlightAsyncTest.ServiceReference1.DoWork2CompletedEventArgs e)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine("2");
        auto1.Set();
    }

    void clien_DoWorkCompleted(object sender, SilverlightAsyncTest.ServiceReference1.DoWorkCompletedEventArgs e)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine("1");
        auto2.Set();
    }
}