How can I assign a name to a task in TPL

Question

I\'m going to use lots of tasks running on my application. Each bunch of tasks is running for some reason. I would like to name these tasks so when I watch the Parallel Tasks wi

Answer 1

You can't really name a Task, but you can name the method which is executed by a Task, which is then shown in the Parallel Tasks windows. So, if naming the Tasks is important for you, don't use lambdas, use normal named methods.

Surprisingly, this works even with Parallel, even though there the Task isn't executing your method directly. I think this is because Parallel Tasks somehow knows about Tasks from Parallel and handles them differently.