How do I force a task cancellation?

Question

Assume, there is a task containing the following actions approximately:

Task someTask = new Task(() => {

  while(!IsCancellationRequested) {

    Do_some         


        

Answer 1

They long to terminate my application immediately. They dont want to wait while long action is running.

By default, Tasks run on the ThreadPool as background tasks. You can safely exit the application without bothering about background threads.

So as long as you want to quit your process there is no problem.

Note that Thread.Abort() was quick but not safe. Not even for a quitting application, but then it would seldom cause a real problem.