Understanding Task.WhenAll in C#

The Task.WhenAll method in C# allows you to create a task that is completed when a group of other tasks have finished executing. This can be useful when you want to wait for multiple tasks to complete before moving on to other parts of your code. To ...

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Sami Mejri

Senior .Net Developer - AWS Certified Developer Associate

Jan 7, 2023

Great read, thanks. However, some developers do not now the difference between WhenAll and WaitAll, it would fantastic if you added the comparison to your article.

Thanks Sami Mejri for your response and I am glad you find it helpful. As a short response the main difference between Task.WaitAll and Task.WhenAll is that WaitAll blocks the current thread until all other tasks have completed, while WhenAll creates a task that completes when all the other tasks have completed without blocking the thread.

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Theodoros Karropoulos

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Jan 7, 2023

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