- Async versions of many threading synchronization primitives
AsyncAutoResetEvent
AsyncBarrier
AsyncCountdownEvent
AsyncManualResetEvent
AsyncReaderWriterLock
AsyncSemaphore
ReentrantSemaphore
- Async versions of very common types
AsyncEventHandler
AsyncLazy<T>
AsyncLazyInitializer
AsyncLocal<T>
AsyncQueue<T>
- Await extension methods
- Await on a
TaskScheduler
to switch to it. Switch to a background thread withawait TaskScheduler.Default;
- Await on a
Task
with a timeout - Await on a
Task
with cancellation
- Await on a
JoinableTaskFactory
that allows you to schedule asynchronous or synchronous work that does not deadlock with the UI thread even when the UI thread needs to synchronously block on the result.
- .NET 4.5
- Windows 8
- Windows Phone 8.1
- .NET Portable (Profile111, or .NET Standard 1.1)