Task is ignoring Thread.Sleep
trying to grasp the TPL. Just for fun I tried to create some Tasks with a random sleep to see how it was processed. I was targeting a fire and forget pattern.. static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine("Demonstrating a successful transaction"); Random d = new Random(); for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { var sleep = d.Next(100, 2000); Action<int> succes = (int x) => { Thread.Sleep(x); Console.WriteLine("sleep={2}, Task={0}, Thread={1}: Begin successful transaction", Task.CurrentId, Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId, x); }; Task t1 = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => succes(sleep)); } Console