Tasks and Task Parallel Library (TPL) : Multi-threading made easy-Introduction

It had been really long since Tasks got released as part of .Net framework class library (FCL) as　a wrapper over thread-pool threads. Now Microsoft strongly recommends the usage of Tasks for almost all multithreaded background running work except in a very few special cases. So it makes perfect sense to understand as to why and how tasks are better in any way than using thread class directly. What are the advantages or new features　multi-threading point of view which we can leverage while using tasks. So a point wise comparison of threads and tasks is required to be proficient in using both of them.



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Visual Studio 2012 or above

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Basics of C# langauge

Basics of creating and running a Windows forms application using .Net framework

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