Creating a execution queue by using Task.ContinueWith?

Question

I have several actions that I want to execute in the background, but they have to be executed synchronously one after the other.

I was wondering if it\'s a good idea to

Answer 1

This should work as designed (using the fact that TPL will schedule the continuation immediately if the corresponding task already has completed).

Personally in this case I would just use a dedicated thread using a concurrent queue (ConcurrentQueue) to draw tasks from - this is more explicit but easier to parse reading the code, especially if you want to find out i.e. how many tasks are currently queued etc.