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

In case this is helpful for anyone, I addressed the above issue as follows:

public static class NamedTasks
{
    public static Dictionary ActiveTasks { get; private set; } = new Dictionary();

    public static void Run(string name, Action action)
    {
        var task = new Task(action);
        ActiveTasks.Add(name, task);
        task.Start();

    public static void RemoveTask(string name)
    {
        if (ActiveTasks.ContainsKey(name))
            ActiveTasks.Remove(name);
    }
}

Usage:

// Start new named task
var taskName = " - ";
NamedTasks.Run(taskName, () =>
{
    // do stuff
    NamedTasks.RemoveTask(taskName);
});

...

// Print names of active tasks
var taskNames = NamedTasks.ActiveTasks.Keys.ToList();
foreach (var taskName in taskNames)
    if (NamedTasks.ActiveTasks[taskName].Status == TaskStatus.Running)
        Console.WriteLine(taskName);

This worked quite nicely for me.