I have 2 simple methods and I want process to not continue until they are finished completely. Because of this I used await Task.WaitAll(tasks); but compiler is giving me error in this line:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error CS1503 Argument 1: cannot convert from '
'System.Collections.Generic.List<System.Threading.Tasks.Task>' to
'System.Threading.Tasks.Task'
Why should I convert this manually by myself? I thought this would be done by the compiler...
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Threading;
internal class Program
{
public static void Count1()
{
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine("Count 1 " + i);
Thread.Sleep(100);
}
}
public static void Count2()
{
for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine("Count 2 " + i);
Thread.Sleep(100);
}
}
public static async Task Run()
{
List<Task> tasks = new List<Task>();
Task t1 = Task.Run(()=>Count1());
Task t2 = Task.Run(() => Count2());
tasks.Add(t1);
tasks.Add(t2);
await Task.WaitAll(tasks); //ERROR IS THROWN HERE
}
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
Run();
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
I suspect you meant WhenAll
rather than WaitAll
. WaitAll
is a blocking call that returns all the results synchronously, when the original tasks have completed. You can't await that result, as it's not a task.
WhenAll
is an asynchronous call that returns a task which completes when all the original tasks have completed. You can await that.
If you change the end of your Run
method to:
await Task.WhenAll(tasks);
Console.WriteLine("All tasks completed");
... you'll see the tasks finish and then the completion message.
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