Await new Task( … ) : Task does not run?

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A continuation of a question asked here :

In the aforementioned question I have the following function which returns an object of type Task (for incremental testing

Answer 1

You are stuck with a bad design there. I'll try to make something work for you under these constraints.

The only way to delay start tasks is to use the Task.Start method. (You also can use RunSynchronously but that doesn't really make use of any of the tasks features. At this point the task becomes an unthreaded lazy object.

So use the Task.Start method.

await does not start tasks. It waits for tasks that already run. Therefore await new Task(() => { }) always freezes forever.

Another problem here:

return new Task