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

Thanks to mike's answer I ended up with:

    public static class ExtensionMethods
    {
        private static readonly ConcurrentDictionary, object> TaskNames = new ConcurrentDictionary, object>();

        public static void _Tag(this Task pTask, object pTag)
        {
            if (pTask == null) return;
            var weakReference = ContainsTask(pTask) ?? new WeakReference(pTask);
            TaskNames[weakReference] = pTag;
        }
        public static void _Name(this Task pTask, string name)
        {
            _Tag(pTask, name);
        }

        public static object _Tag(this Task pTask)
        {
            var weakReference = ContainsTask(pTask);
            if (weakReference == null) return null;
            return TaskNames[weakReference];
        }
        public static object _Name(this Task pTask)
        {
            return (string)_Tag(pTask);
        }

        private static WeakReference ContainsTask(Task pTask)
        {
            foreach (var kvp in TaskNames.ToList())
            {
                WeakReference weakReference = kvp.Key;

                if (!weakReference.TryGetTarget(out var taskFromReference))
                {
                    TaskNames.TryRemove(weakReference, out _);
                    //TaskNames.TryRemove(out ); //Keep the dictionary clean.
                    continue;
                }

                if (pTask == taskFromReference)
                {
                    return weakReference;
                }
            }
            return null;
        }
    }

It is thread safe now and it also supports a name not just a tag.