Question

I’m just wondering whether the new Task class in dot.net 4 is creating a background or foreground thread ?

Normally I’d set “IsBackground” on a Thread, but there’s no such attribute on a Task.

I’ve not been able to find any documentation of this on MSDN 🙁

Answer 1

Shouldn’t be tough to verify:

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Task
            .Factory
            .StartNew(() => Console.WriteLine(Thread.CurrentThread.IsBackground))
            .Wait();
    }
}

And the answer is …

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