TaskCompletionSource is used to create Task objects that don't execute code. In real world scenarios, TaskCompletionSource is ideal for I/O bound operations. This way, you get all the benefits of tasks (e.g. return values, continuations, etc) without blocking a thread for the duration of the operation. If your "function" is an I/O bound operation, it isn't recommended to block a thread using a new Task. Instead, using TaskCompletionSource, you can create a slave task to just indicate when your I/O bound operation finishes or faults.

似乎没有人提到，但我想单元测试也可以被认为是真实的生活。

我发现TaskCompletionSource在使用异步方法模拟依赖时非常有用。

在实际被测程序中:

public interface IEntityFacade
{
  Task<Entity> GetByIdAsync(string id);
}

在单元测试中:

// set up mock dependency (here with NSubstitute)

TaskCompletionSource<Entity> queryTaskDriver = new TaskCompletionSource<Entity>();

IEntityFacade entityFacade = Substitute.For<IEntityFacade>();

entityFacade.GetByIdAsync(Arg.Any<string>()).Returns(queryTaskDriver.Task);

// later on, in the "Act" phase

private void When_Task_Completes_Successfully()
{
  queryTaskDriver.SetResult(someExpectedEntity);
  // ...
}

private void When_Task_Gives_Error()
{
  queryTaskDriver.SetException(someExpectedException);
  // ...
}

毕竟，TaskCompletionSource的这种用法似乎是“不执行代码的任务对象”的另一种情况。

这可能是过于简化的事情，但TaskCompletion源代码允许等待一个事件。从tc开始。SetResult只在事件发生时设置，调用者可以等待任务。

观看这段视频了解更多:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Three-Essential-Tips-for-Async/Lucian03-TipsForAsyncThreadsAndDatabinding

TaskCompletionSource is used to create Task objects that don't execute code. In real world scenarios, TaskCompletionSource is ideal for I/O bound operations. This way, you get all the benefits of tasks (e.g. return values, continuations, etc) without blocking a thread for the duration of the operation. If your "function" is an I/O bound operation, it isn't recommended to block a thread using a new Task. Instead, using TaskCompletionSource, you can create a slave task to just indicate when your I/O bound operation finishes or faults.

我使用TaskCompletionSource的真实场景是在实现下载队列时。在我的情况下，如果用户开始100次下载，我不想一次性将它们全部关闭，所以不是返回一个分层任务，而是返回一个附加到TaskCompletionSource的任务。一旦下载完成，处理队列的线程就完成了任务。

这里的关键概念是，当客户端请求启动任务时，我正在将其与实际启动任务时分离。在这种情况下，因为我不希望客户端必须处理资源管理。

注意，只要你使用的是c# 5编译器(VS 2012+)，你就可以在。net 4中使用async/await来了解更多细节。

在这篇博文中，Levi Botelho描述了如何使用TaskCompletionSource为Process编写异步包装器，这样您就可以启动它并等待它的终止。

public static Task RunProcessAsync(string processPath)
{
    var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<object>();
    var process = new Process
    {
        EnableRaisingEvents = true,
        StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(processPath)
        {
            RedirectStandardError = true,
            UseShellExecute = false
        }
    };
    process.Exited += (sender, args) =>
    {
        if (process.ExitCode != 0)
        {
            var errorMessage = process.StandardError.ReadToEnd();
            tcs.SetException(new InvalidOperationException("The process did not exit correctly. " +
                "The corresponding error message was: " + errorMessage));
        }
        else
        {
            tcs.SetResult(null);
        }
        process.Dispose();
    };
    process.Start();
    return tcs.Task;
}

以及它的用法

await RunProcessAsync("myexecutable.exe");