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What is the difference between Task.WhenAll() and Task.WaitAll() in C#?

The Task.WaitAll blocks the current thread until all other tasks have completed execution. The Task.WhenAll method is used to create a task that will complete if and only if all the other tasks have completed.

If we are using Task.WhenAll we will get a task object that isn’t complete. However, it will not block but will allow the program to execute. On the contrary, the Task.WaitAll method call actually blocks and waits for all other tasks to complete.

To understand with an example, let us say we have a task that performs some activity with the UI thread say some animation needs to be shown in the user interface. Now, if we use Task.WaitAll, the user interface will be blocked and will not be updated until all the related tasks are completed and the block released. However, if we are using Task.WhenAll in the same application, the UI thread will not be blocked and would be updated as usual.

Example for Task.WhenAll −

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The output of the above code is

In the above example we could see that when using Task.WhenAll the task complete is executed before the other tasks are completed. This means that Task.WhenAll doesn’t block the execution.

Example for Task.WaitAll −

In the above example we could see that when using Task.WaitAll the task complete is executed only after all the other tasks are completed. This means that Task.WaitAll block the execution.

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Task.WhenAll - Task.WaitAll

what is better?

await Task.WhenAll(task1, task2); Task.WaitAll(task1, task2);

WhenAll() returns an awaitable Task, while Wait()/WaitAll() suspends the current thread.

as Task.WhenAll() return a Task, your sample sync code should:

a better example using WhenAll():

Thanks and please see my comment.

No there are not the same.

Task.WaitAll() blocks the current thread until the task completes.

await Task.WhenAlll(). returns a task to the caller, the compiler converts all the code after the await to a Continue callback associated with the task.

I don't want that, the user interface must remain operable.

This is then my solution. Can you tell me something about my state thread? To give help? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1313882/state-machine-with-different-state-and-cancel-opti

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Hi @Markus Freitag , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A.

In fact, there is no good or bad, it mainly depends on your usage scenario.

The await keyword is used in an asynchronous environment. If you have asynchronous usage requirements, you need to choose to use it.

Task.WaitAll will block the current process,

  • This method blocks the current thread until all the provided tasks have completed.
  • In the first code example, the program will print "Waiting for tasks to complete." and then block the main thread until both task1 and task2 are completed.
  • After both tasks have completed, it will print "Tasks Completed." and continue with the program execution.
If there is no need for async, I would choose to use Task.WaitAll(task1, task2);

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I think that would be when I have a UserInterface so it doesn't block? How would I have to write that then, the main must be different, with async? Wouldn't that make me safer?

Can you rewrite that so it runs to see the difference?

Does this make sense at all without await. The function does nothing more, I think.

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When to use Task.WaitAll vs. Task.WhenAll in .NET

Understand the differences between task.waitall and task.whenall methods and when to use which in your application..

When to use Task.WaitAll vs. Task.WhenAll in .NET

The TPL (Task Parallel Library) is one of the most interesting new features added in the recent versions of .NET framework. The Task.WaitAll and Task.WhenAll methods are two important and frequently used methods in the TPL.

The Task.WaitAll blocks the current thread until all other tasks have completed execution. The Task.WhenAll method is used to create a task that will complete if and only if all the other tasks have completed.

So, if you are using Task.WhenAll you will get a task object that isn’t complete. However, it will not block but will allow the program to execute. On the contrary, the Task.WaitAll method call actually blocks and waits for all other tasks to complete.

Essentially, Task.WhenAll will give you a task that isn’t complete, but you can use ContinueWith as soon as the specified tasks have completed their execution. Note that neither Task.WhenAll nor Task.WaitAll will actually run the tasks; i.e., no tasks are started by these methods. Here is how ContinueWith is used with Task.WhenAll: 

As Microsoft’s documentation states , Task.WhenAll “creates a task that will complete when all of the Task objects in an enumerable collection have completed.”

Task.WhenAll vs. Task.WaitAll

Let me explain the difference between these two methods with a simple example. Suppose you have a task that performs some activity with the UI thread — say, some animation needs to be shown in the user interface. Now, if you use Task.WaitAll, the user interface will be blocked and will not be updated until all the related tasks are completed and the block released. However, if you are using Task.WhenAll in the same application, the UI thread will not be blocked and would be updated as usual.

So which of these methods should you use when? Well, you can use WaitAll when the intent is synchronously blocking to get the results. But when you would want to leverage asynchrony, you would want to use the WhenAll variant. You can await Task.WhenAll without having to block the current thread. Hence, you may want to use await with Task.WhenAll inside an async method.

While Task.WaitAll blocks the current thread until all pending tasks are complete, Task.WhenAll returns a task object. Task.WaitAll throws an AggregateException when one or more of the tasks throws an exception. When one or more tasks throw an exception and you await the Task.WhenAll method, it unwraps the AggregateException and returns just the first one.

Avoid using Task.Run in loops

You can use tasks when you would like to execute concurrent activities. If you need a high degree of parallelism, tasks are never a good choice. It is always advisable to avoid using thread pool threads in ASP.Net. Hence, you should refrain from using Task.Run or Task.factory.StartNew in ASP.Net.

Task.Run should always be used for CPU bound code. The Task.Run is not a good choice in ASP.Net applications, or, applications that leverages the ASP.Net runtime since it just offloads the work to a ThreadPool thread. If you are using ASP.Net Web API, the request would already be using a ThreadPool thread. Hence, if you use Task.Run in your ASP.Net Web API application, you are just limiting scalability by offloading the work to another worker thread sans any reason.

Note that there is a disadvantage in using Task.Run in a loop. If you use the Task.Run method inside a loop, multiple tasks would be created -- one for each unit of work or iteration. However, if you use Parallel.ForEach in lieu of using Task.Run inside a loop, a Partitioner gets created to avoid creating more tasks to perform the activity than it is needed. This might improve the performance significantly as you can avoid too many context switches and still leverage multiple cores in your system.

It should be noted that Parallel.ForEach uses Partitioner<T> internally so as to distribute the collection into work items. Incidentally, this distribution doesn't happen for each task in the list of items, rather, it happens as a batch. This lowers the overhead involved and hence improves performance. In other words, if you use Task.Run or Task.Factory.StartNew inside a loop, they would create new tasks explicitly for each iteration in the loop. Parallel.ForEach is much more efficient because it will optimize the execution by distributing the work load across the multiple cores in your system.

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Asynchronous Programming – WhenAll vs WaitAll

In this post, we will see the differences between WhenAll and WaitAll in the Asynchronous Programming.

We start creating a Console Application called TestAysncAwait where, we will add two classes called ClassWaitAllTest and ClassWhenAllTest:

[CLASSWAITALLTEST.COM]

[CLASSWHENALLTEST.COM]

Then, we modify the Program.cs file in order to run and testing ClassWaitAllTest:

[PROGRAMM.CS]

We have done and now, if we run the application, this will be the result:

net task waitall vs whenall

Finally, we modify the Program file again, in order to run and testing ClassWhenAllTest:

[PROGRAM.CS]

net task waitall vs whenall

CONCLUSIONS We can see that the results are the same: same time elapsed and same result. The big difference between them is that WaitAll return a Void (it blocks the current thread) instead, WhenAll , return a Task (we can decide to block or not the current thread).

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  • Последовательное и параллельное выполнение. Task.WhenAll и Task.WhenAny

Асинхронный метод может содержать множество выражений await. Когда система встречает в блоке кода оператор await, то выполнение в асинхронном методе останавливается, пока не завершится асинхронная задача. После завершения задачи управление переходит к следующему оператору await и так далее. Это позволяет вызывать асинхронные задачи последовательно в определенном порядке. Например:

Консольный вывод данной программы:

То есть мы видим, что вызовы PrintAsync выполняются последовательно в том порядке, в котором они определены в коде. Каждая задача выполняется как минимум 2 секунды, соответственно общее время выполнения трех задач будет как минимум 6 секунд. И в данном случае вывод строго детерминирован.

Нередко такая последовательность бывает необходима, если одна задача зависит от результатов другой.

Однако это не всегда необходимо. В подобном случае мы можем сразу запустить все задачи параллельно и применить оператор await там, где необходимо гарантировать завершение выполнения задачи, например, в самом конце программы.

В этом случае все задачи запускаются и выполняются параллельно, соответственно общее время выполнения будет меньше 6 секунд, а консольный вывод программы недетерминирован. Например, он может быть следующим:

Однако .NET позволяет упростить отслеживание выполнения набора задач с помощью метода Task.WhenAll . Этот метод принимает набор асинхронных задач и ожидает завершения всех этих задач. Этот метод является аналогом статического метода Task.WaitAll() , однако предназначен непосредственно для асинхронных методов и позволяет применять оператор await:

Вначале запускаются три задачи. Затем Task.WhenAll создает новую задачу, которая будет автоматически выполнена после выполнения всех предоставленных задач, то есть задач task1, task2, task3. А с помощью оператора await ожидаем ее завершения.

Если нам надо дождаться, когда будет выполнена хотя бы одна задача из некоторого набора задач, то можно применять метод Task.WhenAny() . Это аналог метода Task.WaitAny() - он завершает выполнение, когда завершается хотя бы одна задача. Но для ожидания выполнения к Task.WhenAny() применяется оператор await:

Получение результата

Задачи, передаваемые в Task.WhenAll и Task.WhenAny , могут возвращать некоторое значение. В этом случае из методов Task.WhenAll и Task.WhenAny можно получить массив, который будет содержать результаты задач:

В данном случае метод Square возвращает число int - квадрат передаваемого в метод числа. И переменная results будет содержать результат вызова Task.WhenAll - по сути результаты всех трех запущенных задач. Поскольку все передаваемые в Task.WhenAll задачи возвращают int, то соответственно результат Task.WhenAll будет представлять массив значений int.

Также после завершения задачи ее результат можно получить стандартным образом через свойство Result:

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Task.WaitAll  blocks the current thread until everything has completed.

Task.WhenAll  returns a  task  which represents the action of waiting until everything has completed.

Task.WaitAll  throws an  AggregateException  when any of the tasks throws and you can examine all thrown exceptions. The  await  in  await Task.WhenAll  unwraps the  AggregateException  and 'returns' only the first exception. In both cases, all tasks will run, even if one of them throws an exception.

When the program below executes with  await Task.WhenAll(taskArray)  the output is as follows.

When the program below is executed with  Task.WaitAll(taskArray)  the output is as follows.

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Search this blog, task parallel library: waitall vs whenall.

While implementing some async voodoo I noticed that there were 2 very similar methods on the Task class: WaitAll and WhenAll .

So what’s the difference between the 2?

  • Task.WhenAll creates a task that will complete when all of the supplied tasks have completed. It will not block the current execution but allows you to await the tasks for completion.
  • Task.WaitAll will wait for all of the provided Task objects to complete execution.This will block the current execution until all tasks are done.

So if you are inside an async method, you probably want to use Task.WhenAll and use await to get the results.

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Just to clarify, "Task.WaitAll(...)" is essentially same as "await Task.WhenAll(...)". Please correct me if I am missing something.

If I am correct in my above statement, then shouldn't latter be the best approach to wait for all the tasks to complete?

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WaitAll and WhenAll is very different. WaitAll blocks the code on that line. WhenAll returns directly with a Task.. As for await Task.WhenAll() , yes you can do that... As for one approach is better than another, not sure tbh.. I do know that when I get a task back I have the capability check it's state, cancel it and so on.. With that said, I suppose WhenAll gives us more fine-grained control to affect all three Tasks like cancel all, cancel one etc... With WaitAll I'm stuck at that line so it might be tricky to do anything but just wait. So if we ar talking about more fine-grained control I lean on agreeing with you.

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