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Peter
Peter

Reputation: 1715

Difference between OperationCanceledException and TaskCanceledException?

What is the difference between OperationCanceledException and TaskCanceledException? If I am using .NET 4.5 and using the async/await keywords, which one should I be looking to catch?

Upvotes: 110

Views: 17487

Answers (1)

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1502816

OperationCanceledException is simply the base class for TaskCanceledException - so if you catch the former, you'll still catch the latter.

Some operations on concurrent collections throw just OperationCanceledException, as there aren't any actual tasks involved (at least as far as the public API is concerned). See BlockingCollection.TryTake for an example.

I would catch the OperationCanceledException just in case the task is cancelled due to an operation which itself just threw OperationCanceledException - you probably still want to treat that as "just cancellation".

Upvotes: 129

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