Question

I am creating a background thread in a windows form application to do some process that takes time while handling huge data. However, I still want some other methods or processes to wait until this thread finishes its work.

To create a background thread, I used below inline code.

Task.Factory.StartNew(() => GenerateXml2Resx(account, features, codes, outputDir));

So once, this process of generating all *.resx files from xml data is done, I want my application to proceed further.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to call the other methods in a Task.ContinueWith() callback, which will only run after the first task finishes.

If you want that to run in the UI thread, pass TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext().