[Article] How to cancel a running task and to make sure it always cancels.

Introduction          In this article we will see how we can cancel a running task. Task class in .net library is extremely useful when you want to handle thread. Developers don’t have to create or maintain thread explicitly. Methods executed by a Task typically execute asynchronously and it uses background threads from the thread pool. There is no direct way of cancelling a task. .Net framework provides CancellationToken  which we can use to cancel a task with limitation. We will first look at how to cancel...

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