Running multiple C# Task Async

Question

Hi normally I would do this with a Background Worker, but I would like to do it with C# Task instead, just to understand Task better.

The thing is that I have a clas

Answer 1

When you get the Result property, you are effectively waiting for the task to complete. It will execute on a background thread but you are waiting in your main thread for the completion before you start the next thread.

See the MSDN doc for details.

You should be able to just assign your properties from the background thread:

Task.Factory.StartNew(() => Number1 = GenerateResult());

WPF databinding will take care of marshalling the PropertyChanged event to the correct dispatcher thread.