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Seven 6 Months Ago edited 6 Months Ago

Runs a function on a worker thread and returns its result.

Overload 1
"Complete this function on a worker thread"

async Task GenericAsync() // Whatever async code your writing
{
    await ts.RunInThreadAsync( DoHeavyWork );
}

private void DoHeavyWork()
{
	// CPU-bound or blocking work
	ExpensiveCalculation();
}

Overload 2
“return the value from this function that is completed on worker thread”

async Task GenericAsync() // Whatever async code your writing
{
    await ts.RunInThreadAsync( ComputeSomethingLarge );
}

private int ComputeSomethingLarge()
{
    return ExpensiveCalculation(10000);
}

Overload 3
"I need to await things while I complete this async pipeline"

async Task GenericAsync() // Whatever async code your writing
{
    await ts.RunInThreadAsync( LoadAndParseAsync );
}

private async Task LoadAndParseAsync()
{
	await LoadFileAsync();
	await ParseAsync();
}

Overload 4
“I need to produce a value from an awaited async pipeline”

async Task GenericAsync() // Whatever async code your writing
{
    ParsedData data = await ts.RunInThreadAsync( LoadAndParseDataAsync );
}

private async Task<ParsedData> LoadAndParseDataAsync()
{
	string json = await LoadJsonAsync();
	return ParseData( json );
}

these also work the anonymous functions but those examples were harder to parse quickly

example of using anonymous function for Overload 1

async Task GenericAsync() // Whatever async code your writing
{
    await ts.RunInThreadAsync( () =>
        ExpensiveCalculation();
    );
}